curated by Marta Ferrara and Marta Wróblewska
Museo Madre, Naples

Cutting Clouds | Tagliando le nuvole is a program featuring actions linked by the common denominator of the ephemeral and the impermanent. The title refers to Cloud Scissors, a work conceived in the early 1960s by George Brecht. A few cards dictating places, times, and modes provide the instructions for a possible combined happening, drawing on multiple events: random directions to follow in order to shift creative boundaries through play and experimentation. The tools bequeathed by Brecht thus provide the stimulus for an exercise in imagination. In the liminal spaces of the museum, interventions and works present a potentiality, an idea of incompleteness by adopting various media—video, painting, poetry, graphics, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, and performance. Cutting Clouds reflects the movement of clouds that flow fluidly and take shape through our gaze, changing yet never repeating, thus evolving through operations that aim to trigger potential creativity by appreciating the random, the improvised and the indeterminate.