Giuseppe Palmisano's Collective Work 'Ogni cosa è abbandonata' in Lecce

Giuseppe Palmisano (born 1989 in Ceglie Messapica) presents his solo exhibition 'Ogni cosa è abbandonata', curated by Kunstschau, in the collective's box in Lecce. The show features a collective artwork composed of objects from thirty people, each symbolizing an intense personal experience now past, donated to becoming. Palmisano's poetics of sharing and memory is expressed through a 'relational operation' inspired by Liev Schreiber's film 'Everything Is Illuminated'. The artist gathers life testimonies from those who responded to his call, creating a non-place where symbolic objects are 'abandoned', severing the emotional bond with a pivotal life event. Palmisano sheds his previous identity as photographer iosonopipo and the void experimentation of oltrepensare, embracing new existential and creative paths. He writes: 'I walked like someone who expects something from fate and then realizes it's not true, nor that it exists, nor that everyone is the architect of their fortune. So I began my itinerant journey of discovery: I rediscovered myself as actor, creator, photographer, artist, only to realize that the circle closes and will close with me dressing again as a mere man.' The exhibition is reviewed by Cecilia Pavone, an art historian and independent curator from Taranto, with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Bari.