Francesca Caramia - Col volo della rondine nei sensi

In this small 25x25 cm panel, the swallow is not a figure, but an impulse: a luminous fissure that crosses the space like a portent. The gesture, dense and alive, seems to emerge from the surface like a sudden pulse, a flash of perception that embodies the material before it becomes a complete form.
The stucco, applied in irregular fields and with gentle vibrations, creates a tactile landscape: a texture suspended between sky and memory, where white is not emptiness but a held breath. On this uneven ground, the acrylic settles like an incandescent imprint, a trace suggesting movement, direction, and momentum.
The swallow, reduced to the essence of its flight, does not describe but evokes. It is a sign that seems to actually move, cutting across the surface with a firm and ritual energy, as if carrying with it the memory of a distant wind. In the encounter between rough matter and pulsating color, the work becomes a sensorial space: a gateway where the pictorial gesture becomes sensation, and the sensation becomes the echo of something that touches the boundaries of the intangible.
There is no figuration, there is presence.
There is no noise, there is a whisper in flight.