A visionary and seductive new world opens up, taking us on a journey into the intimate act of making art. There is a two-sided key to “open the kingdom” of Carla Viparelli; we see it when strong painting ability, imbued with impeccable elegance and technique, converges with the intelligent application of aesthetics, skewing the speculations of thought towards the practical realisation of a painting. To put it bluntly, Carla uses her head – and ironic hyperbole, oscillating philosophical conjecture, nurturing of emotion – to embed her deepest feelings in each work. In this way she hones a creative path that is marked on the one hand by visual jump cuts and short-circuits, but also by a more lateral, surreal approach. She uses beams of light that create moving sequences in a disordered space-time configuration, underlining the choice of a path that is always poised between the figurative and the non-figurative, between impossible geometries and abstractionism, and between the real and the dream world. The subjects portrayed are fantastical and yet always appear recognisable, as sequential points of a narrative that unfolds without a precise concept: there is no destination, yet the tension of the gaze remains constant and convulsive, as the artist opens up, laying herself bare through ingrained images, notes from the past and long-crystallised ideas that bounce back with force. A female-imprinted work ethic (fitting for this exhibition from 480 Site Specific) that relates to the domestic environment and digs down into the soul of the home to offer an interpretation mediated precisely by the making of art. In these works, all created specifically for the occasion, the artist blends primitive drawings and inexplicit etchings with masterfully executed painting techniques: there is handcraft harmoniously wedded to the digital, there is the volatility of the material, the closeness to intimate feeling that gloriously negates the mainstream.