My research explores the emergence of an apnoeic subconscious within memory in everyday life and how it relates to momentary lapses of intimacy. I work with images and texts through a non-linear and fragmented sequence of visual excerpts from daily life. Like a short-circuit they navigate my mind along an unintended path, often producing dystopian associations. I am interested in how collective and personal memory co-exists within an individual’s mind, at times peacefully blending, at others fighting. The theme of your open call prompted me to question the position and role of the artist in relation to what we tend to call ‘world’. What is the role of the artist when the ‘world’ is facing such an urgent issue and it appears already too late to invert our descent into the ‘eco-inferno’? Questioning the hopelessness of art in changing dangerous tendencies or raising awareness is what preoccupies me. There seems to be a paradox between human extinction and the yearning to document it. Document it for whom if there is no future? It is for me also a story of the extinction of human effort to avoid the end. We could call it ‘collective suicide’. The precipice The instant right before was clear and all hopes were dashed. The thud and the gray deafened the air. It's the time when the light disappears. Everyone was aware. The breath started to decompose.

Imagine to take your subconscious and immerse it under the water. Suspend your breath. Suspend the wind. This is where my mind goes when I see Avanzinelli’s work. (Federica Chiocchetti, Photocaptionist)