With Cosmo, Alessandro Messina asks each of us to exist, yet at the same time his gaze becomes a praise of absence, a cult… of what is missing, and a search for a new balance through the downsizing of the ego. The camera, constantly calibrated through a conceptual filter, abstracts from each framed landscape the foundational structures that underlie it, allowing the universal to emerge from the particular. This spatial movement is countered by the still temporality in which Messina’s images seem immersed, suggesting the opportunity to pause and observe.