Leonardo Petrucci's Time-Bending Exhibition at Gilda Lavia Gallery

At Galleria Gilda Lavia in Rome, Leonardo Petrucci (born 1986 in Grosseto) explores the paradox of time through a series of works that juxtapose human perception with cosmic observation. He replaces zodiacal stars with cement fossils of ammonites soaked in ink, which adorn the gallery walls. A photograph of the Sun taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is exposed to its own rays for a year, undergoing self-destruction. Another work investigates sunlight reaching Earth with an eight-minute delay, materialized as a small cylinder with rounded ends. Based on Einstein's theories of spacetime, a fragment of an iron meteorite is placed inside a conventional clock, obstructing the second hand and preventing it from advancing.