Valerio Berruti's Immersive Installation at Blu di Prussia

Valerio Berruti (born 1977 in Alba) presents a total experience at Galleria Blu di Prussia in Naples, curated by Maria Savarese. The gallery space, directed by Mario Pellegrino and owned by Giuseppe Mannajuolo, becomes part of the artwork, its Liberty-style walls entirely covered in mirrors that dematerialize the architecture. The installation 'Out of your own' derives from a video animation recently shown at Madre museum, evolving its filmic origins into a higher form. Fresco panels on jute—a technique adding transparency and materiality—repeat a child figure in contiguous moments of movement, echoing the video's frames. The rhythm of walking evokes the kinesthetic sway of the soundtrack composed by Joan As Police Woman. The installation expands the video's ambient mood, prolonging its time and suggestions into real exploration. Mirrors induce perspective distortion, paradoxically making 2D panels more three-dimensional and cinematic than the video, which retains synthetic flatness. The line slips between abstraction and figuration, recalling Egon Schiele, a favorite of Berruti. The process inverts Bill Viola's 'The Veiling' and incorporates Sabah Naim's performative use of veils. The image of a child discovering his shadow conveys metalinguistic reflections on mimesis/nature and abstraction/figuration, reconciled in a core aesthetic and human unity.