Mind the Gap

From Evidence
to Imagination

26 February
—24 May
2026

Casa
Cavazzini
Udine

Mind the Gap

From Evidence
to Imagination

Carloni–Franceschetti

Onda bruna, 2021
Installation. Portable projection screen 1950-1960, spotlight, silent track recorder on deformed 33 RPM vinyl, record player, variable dimensions.

The record, bearing a track recorded on the edge, is deformed by swelling. The stylus is forced to ride in the groove, going up and down. The title of the work is taken from the Inferno’s third Canto, where Charon takes the damned souls to the opposite shore of the Acheron River, which Dante defines with the synecdoche “umber’d wave” (the “onda bruna” of the title, in Italian). Charon as a smuggler, a tragic vision of the current situation in the Mediterranean, addresses the audience with a question: what is the link between migration phenomena and climate inequality?

Carloni-Franceschetti is a duo consisting of Cristiano Carloni and Stefano Franceschetti, founded in 1995. They studied animation and painting. They are the creators of videos, installations, electronic stage settings, animated movies, photographs and performances investigating the optical procedures of vision in the transmutation of matter and in the temporal dilation of memory. Carloni-Franceschetti’s works have been exhibited in numerous cultural institutions, including: Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, 2002), Louvre Museum (Paris, 2004), Biennale Teatro (Venice, 2005), Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing, 2006), Martin Segal Center (New York, 2008), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, 2010), Austrian Film Museum (Vienna, 2011), and MACRO (Rome, 2018). In 2021 they were the winners of the X edition of the Italian Council.

www.carloni-franceschetti.it