The "figure" (and indeed, the vast majority of her paintings are figures and portraits, this theme being the true and deep obsession of Nono's work) now avails itself of a light that appears to be ampler and less tense, and so has less trouble extracting the forms from the dark, unknown and mysterious magma of the ground.(…)So that, of the troubles which, like a basso continuo, occupy the mind, now almost nothing remains, except for the abrupt photographic cut that shakes the banal obviousness of a direct take on the real, while constantly designating a bewilderment and alterity with respect to the normal flow of existence, and a sense of the "somewhere else"that unfailingly, and implacably, marks Serena Nono's images.
Enveloped, as if struck by solitude, these images traverse the world, their only confort a pose that enfolds them, a brief embrace, a gesture of prayer.
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Fabrizio D'Amico, from Solitude and the "Somewhere else", from the catalogue Figure, Lineadombra libri, 2000