NOLI ME TANGERE

In the work of Cristina Papi affective dimension, the survey of the ego and domestic spaces, the attention to gesture in its rituals dimension and to the object as a sediment of daily life and memory, leading the artist to explore and transform, as in an alchemical process, pieces of the inner world, private and personal. In a sentimental journey, à rebours Papi reconstructs fragments of a discourse and a psychological and emotional path through which she establishes a dialogue seamlessly between past and present, particular and universal, inwardness and
outwardness. The past leaves traces of memory that become fragments of a story consigned to others in order to know and recognize each other in an image reflected in the mirror, opening a flow of communication with new stories and experiences in a game of multiple references and suggestions.
Federica Mascagni

The works are reflection around Memory as a part of an interior and unexploring world. The origin and the evolution of a rational thought are tied with the emotional and passional sphere. the idea of a man between sky and hearth, between emotion and life, the family as a first stop of a long way, without any possibility to go back. The themes show the evident and repressive obsession, the fear, and the research of balance. The heaviness lining on object, words and place; the possibility to find an empathies using sounds, photo, object without any presumption to explain o describing something. The music, the words as vibrations are meant integral part of Cosmo and nature. The artist tries to be overwhelmed by the events, whatever they are, with the goal and the strength to refund the way in the labyrinth of the Memory. In each works there is always the hope that people may discover unexpectedly something of there owns that deeply belongs to them even if they didn’t remember anymore.