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Galleria A plus A
preview 29th March, 6pm
until 15th May 2025

A plus A Gallery, Venice

Embroidery, an ancient artistic technique since the myth of Arachne, attack(h)s.[i] It attack(h)s the thread of the present, the past and the future. As I move my fingers, it weaves actions and memories, and time flows between my fingers. I embroider and attack(h) the gods, philosophy, history, nature, I attack(h) physics. But in which direction flows the arrow of time? Newton's, Maxwell's, Einstein's, Heisenberg's and Schrödinger's equations have as their mathematical core the differential equation, and nothing prevents a differential equation from turning around. That a stone jumps back out of the water, after being thrown in, is not only possible in a tik-tok montage, but also in reality. ‘It is only an accidental inability, for which we are not yet able to make such a skilful construction, as to cause the necessary state of vibration at the edge of a lake or the edge of a bowl of water, to be able to do it for real’. So confirms David Hilbert, inventor of the mathematical space in which physics has been observing and calculating quantum energies for more than a hundred years now, performing probable and improbable acrobatics as saltimbanques.