23 I have known Giusy Lauriola since 2008, when she participated with her solo exhibition Extra – urbane in the series of exhibitions Nel segno delle donne (In the sign of women) at Gallery 196, which I managed at the time. Over the years, I have seen her grow and evolve with a rare rapidity, adding and subtracting elements and techniques in her works incessantly, always in search of new stimuli and new goals. I have seen her determined and stubborn along the not always easy path to the clouds, we could say by paraphrasing the title of her beautiful exhibition. And it is here that our gaze loses itself in the colours made even brighter by the resin that fluidly and anarchically covers the surfaces. And it is here that our mind goes back with the memory to recall facts and sensations that it had forgotten or, on the contrary, it goes forward imagining that what it is looking at could be the scenario of its future. Because Giusy's work moves in an atemporal and indefinite space that places man, who wants to look inside himself, in front of his past, his present and, why not, his possible future, thus perfectly fulfilling one of the main tasks of contemporary art. Federica Di Stefano
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