"Without contraries, no progress". Blake’s saying dates from the XVIII century, but is equally applicable to the spirit of the contemporary artworks shown in Experimentum Crucis 2024. An exhibition at odds with whatever negligence, discrimination, ravage affecting men, animals, still world. To begin with, transhomophobia and differently ables, then animals, namely so-called "beasts for slaughter", then earth itself, from vulcanos to the oceans. Stefano Cagol, Tiziana Cera Rosco, Venia Dimitrakopoulou, Eva Frapiccini, Giovanni Gaggia, Alice Grassi, Claudio Maccari, Elena Mazzi e Sara Tirelli, Mattia Ozzy B., Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Miha Strukelj, Adam Vačkár, explicitly deal with the conflicts among men, as well as men and nature (the nature of her own body, for Cera Rosco) with metaphors and allegories both powerful and  thrifty, free of declamations and redundancies, as stringent as effective. In counterpoint, Michele Spadaro invites at listening to the Etna voice, while  Maura Biava, Francesco Voltolina, Jingyun Wang praise man-nature integration  (by sound, images, visual poetry), and  Francesca Grilli expounds the beauty of a disability that her video tale transfigures into in healing, redeeming, strength.

PH: Eva Frapiccini, Magnifici misteri (stills), 2012, HD cam, blue ray, 7'