IT'S FOREVER - MELFI Microcosms "The encounter with the Rapolla Sarcophagus represented a key event for my research" - says the artist - who has always been attentive to the flow of Time and duration in Space. "The unaltered formal beauty of the stretched out body, of an unknown but familiar woman, immediately made me think of my landscapes, in which the meeting line between the earth and the waters, between the sky and the surfaces of the cities in its metropolitan membranes, in the heights of the mountains and in the vastness of archipelagos and lagoons dominates. The skyline of the profile of Emilia Scaura's body in perpetual rest, represents that border line between the reality of then and the present. The here and now. A contact between the past and today's world that will last forever thanks to art and culture." The citation of the Rapolla sarcophagus begins a new research path for Mara Fabbro: following the long line of light that represents the profile of the body lying stretched out on a bed-temple, the artist travels the border between the Present and the Past and welcomes an infinite universe that subverts the world. The Time Gone, in these works, is light and ethereal: it is present in the absence of the marble sarcophagus that is already a memory; it is present in the void of the transparencies of the polycarbonates that cancel the superfluous, the bas-reliefs, the friezes, the decorations, the niches, and even the people. What has been is in the skies apparently free of clouds, in the lightness of almost nothingness that welcomes the enigma of the unknown, the importance of History. The Present, on the other hand, is embodied in the resin pixels. Numerous and close together or sparse and solitary, these tiles form the new views of today, which looks towards a mosaic future, where every single element becomes a gesture, a movement in a place that transforms into a life to be lived, into a new journey to be undertaken.