THE IMPERFECT EGG / L’UOVO IMPERFETTO by Massimo Schiavoni | Italy (2023)
The egg, a symbol of fecundity, the succession of life, the continuation of the species, in one word, a symbol of TOMORROW.
A tomorrow that, however, should be built slowly, without rushing and without oppression, a tomorrow that must be shaped with one’s own hands in the present, LAYER ON LAYER, in the moment HERE and NOW, with care and patience without the rushes and routines of a hectic daily life.
A tomorrow that, to be better, must move away from the frenzy of competitions, wars, minute and calculating schedules, and records.
A tomorrow without races to trade and bargain, without constant challenges, without anxieties about performance, production and records, without frivolous examples of models and Stars, social and web, without so much useless talk…
A tomorrow possibly without wars, without dictators, without pandemics and without crazy climates.
This takes calm, presence, contact and slowness. So let us stop and change the verbs from the near future to the present.
And here then, the contemporary egg, can only be IMPERFECT, built slowly with the “barbarities,” superficiality and ephemerality of today, shaped with the values and symbols of a world in disarray. An egg that is born of man and, rebelling, absurdly fights against the one who originated it, in a struggle without winners or losers, future uncertain never as in this era.
Unconsciously, however, the imperfect egg represents all of us, the consequences we originate, with our flaws and far from the perfection we would like to achieve.
Bio
Massimo Schiavoni is a lecturer and visual artist. His academic studies range from sculpture and photography to digital and theatrical audiovisual disciplines (Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia ADAMS and Accademia Cromatica di Roma).
His video works have been screened at major international experimental festivals: Festival La File de Cortometrajes in Valladolid, ULFF in North Carolina, Filmets in Badalona, EUROSHORT in Warsaw, International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers of Film and Video in Thessaloniki. Lucania Film Festival, Fano International Film Festival.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
