Falling due to a desperate lack of harmony, the stars dematerialize into a digital fluid that flows across the gallery’s 16 monitors, beginning with an initial panel made of aluminum and tar paper in red, and culminating in the light of a second blue panel that closes the exhibition path. The work leads the viewer into the abyss of a hybrid, undefined space—a place where earthly perception of time and space dissolves. The illusory dynamism of the reclaimed aluminum panels pairs well with the ethereal stillness of the bold, pure, boundaryless colors, as if… seeking to counterbalance the turbulent restlessness that pervades the young woman’s gaze in the opening panel. In this new interpretation, the artist’s stars dematerialize into a fluid that hides the secret of the world. The beauty that surrounds them shifts the mood of the work, guiding it toward a resolution: from torment to light.
The wounded stars, often missing a point, lost in the violence of their fall, cluster together and merge. In Ionda’s art, chaos, imbalance, and darkness are never devoid of hope: the stars stratify into fields of color and come back to life, moving within Rifugio Digitale as if they were still falling in a harmonious, fluid dance.