Investigating wonder to welcome the unexpected
Deep disenchantment dominates the contemporary creative reality that is devoid of awe. After a moment of initial confusion, through a spontaneous glance that does not demand understanding but increases the propensity for awe and amazement, the rediscovery of wonder leads to the creative experience. Surprise - an aesthetic device useful for experiencing and perceiving novelty - can take on different connotations: the boundaries are no longer conventional, innovative solutions lead to forms of expression that embrace the contemporary. The new is now exceptional, the unpublished becomes a creative act, the result of the collaboration between wonder and aesthetic experience leads to unexplored territories, to unexpected places.
Unrest due to the breaking of familiarity and the habitual routines of reality. Disturbance, like a timeless flow, a tumult that kidnaps the individual leaving the body empty, detaching it from perceptible reality, creating moments of confusion in which dualism between instinct and the body prevails. Instinct pushes towards the unknown, governing the body; contact with The New is intense. Through the breath, the body and instinct merge again, moving towards a new physical and sensorial experience that leads to fully experiencing wonder.
Excessive elaboration of reality, removed from artificial manipulation. Artifacts are artifacts, excessive human elaborations that leave no room for wonder. Artifacts remain still in space, arranged in space, making themselves unrecognizable but perceptible. Artefacts belongs but are foreign, they confuse, within them exists a dualism of opposite elements that create unexpected correlations; they have no emotions but they create emotions, artificial, fake and insincere, referring to a universe that has a history that does not exist but that has as its value: non-value.
Admiration and enchantment in contact with the exceptional and the unknown
Knowing what no one has ever known, creating what no one has ever created,
Observing reality through eyes that have never seen: “pure humanity” transforms raw experience into meaning, the hum of the world becomes an internal dialogue. Only through the creation of a personal space, preceded by an empathic lens that calls us to slow down, does the contemplation of a pure essence of absurd novelty occur, free from noise and preconceptions.
Transposition and derealization of reality, removed from the normal daily contextmaking it possible to perceive new or unusual aspects. The cognitive framework of everyday life, characterized by the perception of truth through our conscience and intuition, forms a complex system of knowledge and ways of observing reality, a system in which objects become familiar, and their recognition superficial. Common views becomes automatic, it is only through alienation that how we view objects changes - moved by wonder - bringing with it new unprecedented connotations.
Exaltation and ecstasy due to going beyond the limits of how reality is perceived. Pushing beyond the boundaries of the known, living an experience that involves - sudden wonder - that envelops - inebriating force - amplifying experience, taking it to a new dimension. The perception of oneself and the world changes, becoming more intense, merging with euphoria. In contact with the unknown, a passage opens up to beyond what is perceivable: the invisible reveals itself, throwing doors open on new perspectives, to new ways of experiencing reality.
Upheaval caused by impetus outbursts in response to the extraordinary.
Every limit asks for a way to overcome it, by using will-power, attention, senses, illusion, imagination and knowledge. Creativity, trapped in a suffocating stasis, structured around pre-established patterns and models, frees itself from every constraint by going beyond the ordinary.
What is achieved is a journey that goes beyond the boundaries of the self; a superhuman feat, which goes beyond creative stasis, reaching a new form of expression by breaking the chain of homologation.
Opening the Secoli Fashion Show 2025 the capsule collections by Designer to Watch, Istituto Secoli’s best talents:
ELENA RASIA - capsule "OUTERDOT"
ILARIA PANSERA - collection "Like Indelible Marks"
CLAUDIA ROMEO - capsule "Fotopsìa"
ANDREA EDNA GOBBI - collection "The sound of memories"
