Confessione alla Luna

A boundless drop

Ambrosia – Elisir d’immortalità

Go over like a lead balloon

'Cause all we got is here to lose

Allegoria dell a-tempo

Ambrosia Booklet

Animated video, 3'34'', 2020

Distanze Comoventi

Solo exhibition at Fondazione Stelline curated by Davide Dall'Ombra and Alessandra Klimciuk (2023), born from the project "No time to die" as part of the B to B TanExpo fair the previous year.

“The title chosen makes the neurons of our understanding crackle with the aim of activating the mechanism necessary to step up our game in front of these works of art. Faced with finiteness, inexorable for some, unacceptable for all, Sciorilli begins, literally, with maximum systems. According to scientists, the universe is constantly expanding. This undermines the concept of distance between two points, which - every instant - increases, making our measurements constantly incorrect. The solution devised by astronomers is to erase time from the calculation, thus excluding the receding of celestial bodies. More or less. Distances are ’comoving’, the elements move together yet remain stationary between them. This is what we also habitually do, taking our measurements in life - with each other, with things, on ourselves... - as if time, and therefore the end, did not exist. Only when you decide it is real, it is (De Dominicis). We accept a convention in order to endure the mutability of an instant, the fact that reality is infinite and not measurable by us. Moreover, the choice of words is not casual. In Italian language, in fact, there is an assonance between the word ’comovente’ (comovent) with 1 m, and ’commovente’ with two ms. The word “commovente” means moving, something that makes us suffer, so the title becomes an icastic and beautiful definition of farewell and death.” extract from the catalogue text by Davide Dall’Ombra.

Confessione alla luna

A boundless drop

Ambrosia – elisir d’immortalità

Go over like a lead balloon

'Cause all we got is here to lose

Allegoria dell a-tempo

Confessione alla Luna
Confession to the Moon

Video projection realized by Shlieren method 1'29'', (continuous loop), 2023

The breath, understood as the circular act of life, anyone's first and last action, takes on visual form at the expense of sound. The photographic footage used allows for a contrast to the air, and the words will be heard only by the moon.

A boundless drop

11 graphite drawings on paper, 20×15cm, plinth with plexiglass case, 200×30×3 cm, digital drawing print on box 15×5×5cm, black glass ball, 2022

Ambrosia – Elisir d’Immortalità
(distillatore Alkahest)
Ambrosia – Elixir of Immortality
(Alkahest distiller)

Structure in steel, rubber, glass, and coloured water 180×600cm approximately, plinth with plexiglass case, 200×30×30cm, digital design print on label, glass bottle with liquid content, 2023

“Ambrosia is an elixir “to be consumed preferably before the end”, because “it is scientifically irrefutable that drinking Ambrosia prolongs life in direct proportion to the amount ingested”, Sciorilli states in the instructions for use. Like any self-respecting charlatan, the artist (of all times) is the one who can convince us of the existence of what we would not be able to see on our own. Truth and false are thrown back into our hands: it is up to us to choose. In this case, the artist fulfils his duty by detailing the story of the elixir, produced by a small company in his hometown of Atessa (Chieti), which, in the year of his birth, began a highly successful international production of it. The key ingredient of Ambrosia is alkahest: the mysterious constituent element of the philosopher’s stone…” extract from the catalogue text by Davide Dall’Ombra.

Ambrosia Booklet

Go over like a lead balloon

Video-animations, variable duration (continuous loop), on 15 veiled curtains, environmental sizes, 2023

“… The visitor is invited through a combined sensory, tactile, and visual projection... Go over like a lead balloon, literally to fall like a lead balloon, indicates an experience which turns out to be a complete disaster. After all, the slight floating in the void of the artist’s self-portrait, magically suspended, attempts to repair the wound inflicted on our eyes by the distant 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster, immortalized on the cover of Led Zeppelin’s first album (1969), and - at least for our generation - by the much more vivid memory of the desperate people throwing themselves from the Twin Towers (2001). The artist asked friends and acquaintances to film themselves in a “suspended” position, then translating them into animated drawings. The work is, potentially, continuously developing because it could receive new aspirants to immortality.” extract from the catalogue text by Davide Dall’Ombra.

’Cause all we got is here to lose

Animated video, 3'34'', 2020

Allegoria dell’a-tempo
Allegory of the a-time

Site-specific installation, 3 canvases, graphite, watercolour pastels, acrylic chalk, 225,5×99,5cm, 1 canvas, graphite, acrylic chalk, 65×99,5cm, 2023

“It is an ideal smoke that impertinently comes out of the underground, generating a kind of dream or perhaps revealing the overall engine of the path. We cannot tell, in fact, whether time is the result or the origin of the experiments at the lower level. Peeping through the openings in the facade is the decomposed figure of an allegorical woman, made with watercolour crayons, laying brushstrokes of chalk and acrylic on which to draw in pencil. Colour returns, a very rare self-concession for the artist, bringing us back to the primaries.” extract from the catalogue text by Davide Dall’Ombra.