Alfredo Pirri | Quello che avanza

z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to announce the site-specific environmental installation by Alfredo Pirri at Polytropon Arts Centre.

Quello che avanza is an environmental installation that takes shape as an active residue — as that which remains after a process and, precisely because of this, continues to generate meaning. A series of 144 cyanotypes created between 2014 and 2017 transforms the physical space into a perceptual field in which the passage of time deposits its traces, much like the river flowing beyond the windows of Polytropon Arts Centre.

In dialogue with the cyanotypes, works from the series ARIE introduce a further dimension: that of an unstable matter suspended between weight and lightness. Made with feathers, pigments, plexiglass, and crystal, these works present themselves as still frames of an invisible movement — surfaces traversed by color and light, shifting in relation to space and the viewer’s gaze.

The title of the installation suggests a double direction: what remains from processes of making, but also what comes forward because of them. As a whole, Alfredo Pirri’s intervention turns its gaze toward process and memory — yet without nostalgia, as if every residue might contain within itself the trace of a possible future.

 

4 March 2026