[...] "Gift, but of what sort? Gifts may be pleasant or pretty, intelligent or surprising, but in the context of artistic effectiveness the gift is such only when it is an invading gift. In other spheres it is easy to find examples of "invading" gifts, like the Tables of the Law that Moses receives twice. In the making of art, the most useful gift, the only one that achieves its effect, is, precisely, the invasive gift - the one that is hard for us to place, the gift that disquiets, displaces and persuades by virtue of its very presence. Such are the bodies and figures which Serena Nono paints. Do not be deceived by the apparent self-possession, the composed pain, the acceptance, the torpor of sleep or the suspended gesture - this is precisely what makes them invasive, tensed toward what is outside themselves"
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Daniele Del Giudice, The gift and the body , Februrary 2000