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Exhibitions
Ala d'Amico

Entre chien et loup

Curated by Ilaria Gianni
The French expression «entre chien et loup» dates back to the Middle Ages, when daily life depended heavily on natural light. It describes the moment of the day when the light fades without yet turning into full darkness, when visibility becomes so limited that one can no longer distinguish a dog (domestic and loyal) from a wolf (wild and threatening). It is precisely within this enigmatic uncertainty, in this transition between states, that Ala d’Amico’s new body of work is situated.
Entre chien et loup consists of silkscreen works on wooden panels, upon which – through the artist’s meticulous and patient use of graphite, silver powder, charcoal, chalk, or ink – forms emerge that lose their clarity and become presences. These images are permeated by an ambiguous sense of loss, in the sense articulated by Pauline Boss, to whom the artist feels deeply connected: a relational and elusive condition that resists resolution and becomes the very space the images inhabit.
Ala d’Amico translates this notion into the paradoxical state of uncertainty that defines her work, where what might seem lost is instead suspended, transformed, and returned through her creative vision. From the forms reshaped by the blue light of twilight to those that grow increasingly ominous as darkness advances, what once felt familiar and reassuring in its recognisability gradually dissolves within Ala’s images, slipping into our own projections and into the sedimented layers of our thoughts.
Our gaze, held in suspension, looks toward what is no longer there, unable to fully grasp it. No longer domesticated by our knowledge, it has become something other, made wild. After a first step into this ambivalent and undefined transitional dimension, at the boundary between the known and the unknown (the works are no longer entirely clear or stable), the elusive dark shadows of the “wolf” metaphorically begin to appear over time, symbol of what is uncontrollable, unpredictable, untamable, and frightening.