n Susanna Cati's recent research, the sea becomes an element that allows us to investigate in parallel urgent instances of the contemporary world - from pollution to alienation - and individual issues that have the character of universality in their unresolved and timeless figure. The same is true for Abisso which borrows the title from the homonymous masculine noun which takes on a plurality of meanings - physical, literal, figurative - keeping the common figure in the characteristic that distinguishes its depth: darkness. It is known that the more we go down to the seabed, the more the sun's rays struggle to arrive. In the darkness, however, an extraordinary variety of life forms is discovered, an alien world populated by creatures from other eras, living beings who feed on the light of their own bioluminescence. To see, you need the courage to look beyond the known horizon, to face the darkness to defeat fear. “The satisfactions of a hardworking, comfortable and peaceful life are great, but the attraction of the abyss is even greater” wrote Dino Buzzati. And that abyss is not an inanimate void but a real, lively and alive place: nature teaches us this, the descent into our interiority confirms it. The artist gives us back the sense of how much each element is in communion with the rest of the universe, tangible and intangible, to the point of being able to confuse the paths that lead from one to the other. In this fusion of heaven, earth and abyss, everything has equal importance, each one is precious and, therefore, worthy of being known, guarded and protected. Quoting Wislawa Szymborska, “The thing that falls into an abyss / falls from heaven to heaven”.
