SOLO PROIEZIONE
SASCHA VENTURI
Curated by Federica Viola
Frankfurt – Nov 2025
In Solo Proiezione, Sascha Venturi regenerates the context that made it possible to imprint certain indelible emotions into memory. His photographic series captures the invisible moment between one action and the next, that instant in which light becomes memory and reality turns into reflection.
He suspends time and space, creating a new essential place of being, in which, with all noise and external conditioning removed, certainties dissolve and we witness the emergence of something we are no longer accustomed to welcoming. Questions arise, much is called into question. His art creates an occasion for remembrance, inviting doubt and reflection.
Venturi immobilizes moving images projected onto a screen, capturing not only the light but the very breath of inaction, the moment in which the soul seems to detach from the body to observe the flow of life from outside. His gesture thus becomes meta-photographic: an investigation of the act of seeing and of the device that generates the image, looking behind the screen, beyond appearance, to uncover the eye that looks.
What emerges is not merely a body of works, but a perceptual experience that invites us to suspend ordinary consciousness and allow ourselves to be permeated by the silence of the image.
For Venturi, the moment of observation is an integral part of the work itself: the artist carefully shapes every detail of the environment – light, darkness, duration of viewing – to recreate the same intimate and almost ritual atmosphere of family slide projections that had fascinated him as a child.
It is in this suspended, intimate, and meditative space that his research finds its greatest intensity, inviting the viewer to question what is seen and what remains invisible.
Connecting Thread of the Three Projects
In all four projects presented in the exhibition, a space of suspension is created, an intermediate, fragile, and fertile environment in which ordinary perception is interrupted. Faced with a void charged with potential, the individual is invited to question their relationship with reality, with the body, with memory, with others and with the space they inhabit.
In Solo: Proiezione, Venturi suspends the time of the image.
The work does not show what happens, but what occurs before and after the action, the invisible interval in which identity examines itself. The image is not documentation, but a mental space where personal memory and shared perception come into tension.
In Touch Me Not, the suspension is emotional and sensorial.
The image attracts and repels at the same time. It draws us closer to what we believe is familiar, only to unanchor it, rendering it simultaneously corporeal and artificial.
Confronted with these visual hybrids, the viewer is compelled to pause, to recognize the limits of perception, and to rethink the notion of “body”.
It is a void between desire and rejection, between recognition and estrangement.
In SAVE Letter Project, the suspension becomes relational.
Meaning is not given but awaited. The work is activated the moment the recipient – faced with a gesture that is unexpected and not immediately interpretable – pauses and decides how to respond.
It is a space of potential relation that demands attention, presence, and slowness.
Finally, with Pinboard Art, suspension turns spatial. The work is displaced into marginal, overlooked corners of everyday life, questioning what we consider visible or worthy of attention.
In front of Venturi’s works, the viewer cannot simply look, they must inhabit them.
The works initiate a ritual of attention, inviting us to slow down and linger at the threshold between what is known and what has not yet taken form.
His artistic research may be described as a poetics of the interval: between image and memory in Solo: Proiezione, between touch and emotional distance in Touch Me Not, between communication and silence in SAVE Letter Project, between centre and margin in Pinboard Art.
In all four cases, the artwork does not depict reality, but opens the hidden space in which what we can no longer see, feel, or say may re-emerge.
Venturi works in the suspended instant, creating experiences that do not offer answers but activate questions, reopening the possibility to see, to feel, and to communicate anew.
FEDERICA VIOLA
