Sergio Gioberto (1952, Turin) and Marilena Noro (1961, Turin). Live and work in Turin.

Sergio Gioberto and Marilena Noro are interested in visual perception and see contemporary art as an elective field in which to operate.
The attention of the two artists focuses on the process of seeing, examined from a particular angle of observation, the one of the perceptual functions of the brain seen as a threshold, as an intermediate space, between our inner world and external reality.

Current visual culture is heavily influenced by the perspective model much more deeply than it was in the Renaissance.
A system, the one related to linear perspective, created to give order and measure to vision, which ends up, if used the unconscious, to anesthetize the gaze, to transform itself into a screen, into a diaphragm that separates us from reality instead of being a map, a compass that helps us to orient ourselves in the visual babel we are surrounded by (Alberti's "window open to the world" has been "transmuted" into the smartphone screen, a device that tends to give an illusory sense of power over the appearances of real but then, in reality, it almost always ends up creating only a new visual emergence).

Gioberto Noro's poetic investigation aims, through the reconfiguration of the concepts of space, distance and proximity, to make people aware of the intervals and voids that exist between things and people, to make them participate in the very essence of perceiving. Their practice is, to a certain extent, paradoxical: to be able to see, to give breath to the eye, they use a medium, photography, that contracts and delimits the visual field. However, it is precisely this restriction that makes possible a readability of the visual chaos in which we are immersed and a release from the anxiety of not knowing how to prioritize what to look at. Framing as a limit that frees, framing as a space in which to safeguard the infinite.

Paraphrasing the Goethe of Elective Affinities, (To escape the world, there is no safer means than art; and nothing is better than art, to keep in touch with the world), current art only serves to entertain, to escape from the apparently chaotic, confused and illegible reality that lies outside the spaces dedicated to art, or, at the same time, is able to be a privileged way of accessing the perception of reality, a viaticum that allows us to decipher the visual that surrounds us?