The image as a construction of the self over time
Opening: 8 May 2026, 10 pm – Craft World
What happens when a landscape does not exist, yet you recognise it all the same?
With Narrative Weaves (IT. Trame narrative), Fiona Saiman constructs a visual journey that moves between the real and the imagined, inviting the public to enter a suspended dimension. The exhibition takes the form of a linear installation, supported by interwoven arboreal elements: a structure that seems to grow from the ground, as if the images were generated directly from the earth.
The landscapes presented are digital, yet not cold or distant. On the contrary, they appear intimate, almost familiar. They are places that seem to belong to a collective memory or a shared dream: fields, skies, silent spaces traversed by subtle presences. Each image is an open narrative, a fragment that suggests more than it reveals.
Saiman’s work engages with much of contemporary art research, in which the landscape is no longer merely a backdrop, but an emotional and mental device. As in the most recent landscape photography, the environment becomes a space onto which to project identities, desires and transformations. In this case, however, the shift goes further: the landscape is not found, but constructed.
There is also a link to artistic practices that use virtual worlds and simulated environments to question our relationship with the image. In an age where we increasingly live between the physical and the digital, these visions become tools for reflecting on who we are and how we represent ourselves over time.
Trame narrative is not just an exhibition to be viewed, but an experience to be traversed slowly. The gaze flows along the structure, lingers, returns, and creates connections. It is in this movement that the meaning of the work emerges: a narrative, indeed, made up of images, memories and possibilities.
An invitation to lose oneself in the landscapes — and perhaps to find oneself again.
