Video

Ute Leghei Ute Kruptei

11′
2022

Ute leghei ute kruptei, a transliteration from the Greek ὄυτε λέγει ὄυτε κρύπτει, literally means neither speaks nor conceals, and is part of a fragment by Heraclitus (22B93 DK) explicitly referring to Apollo, the god who presides over wisdom through the attributes of the bow and the lyre, symbols of thought and speech.
The expression neither speaks nor conceals reveals the very nature of the god, as well as of the wisdom he grants to men, which is “oblique, indirect, ambiguous,” since words, in the very act of describing and “illuminating” an object, conceal its innermost nature.

The underlying ambiguity of any language with respect to the deep truth of things, and the existential enigma that follows from it, concepts rejected by our civilization, in which certainty and truth coincide, form the central theme of the short film. Yet they are also at the heart of a sense of art from which every single piece of the present body of work arises, a sense that today, more than ever, needs to be remembered and borne witness to, in an age in which the excess of analysis and measurement is evidently not leading to a reconciliation with life.

The video was presented at the Pseudomorphika exhibition, at the Artender gallery in Alassio, in 2022.

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