VERSUS / TOWARD

The red rectangle between the two vertical panels is a center of attraction. At the sides, two groups of people, masks, roles project themselves one on the other, in a reciprocal multiplication of glances.
The chiaroscuros come out of sharp and uniform surfaces. Like symbols beyond time and situations, the figures are just suggested, the stories are not narrated: it is an encounter of humanity. The construction of sense is delicate, multifaceted, mediated; as well as the expectations generated by the encounter. Expectations that are reasonable or distorted, excessive or realized, disappointed, fulfilled or reconsidered.
A visual rhythm of vertical cuts creates a space in which the faces propagate, transform, hide. It is a rhythm of blacks and reds, of opaque and glossy, of painting and print, in a continuous redefinition of what one expects of the other - and that can, in turn, modify the other.
The two panels are interchangeable and can converge or diverge from the red rectangle, thus moving the balance and bringing near or putting away the possibility to find a common point among expectations.