Video program curated by Luca Valerio, Coordinator of the Department of Design and Applied Arts
intersection /ˌɪntəˈsɛkʃən/
feminine noun [from the Latin intersectio-onis, derived from intersecare: to cut across].
The crossing of two lines, two planes, or a line with a plane; more concretely, the set of their common points.
By extension, in everyday language, a crossing point.
In set theory, it specifically designates the operation that associates two sets with a new one, made up of the points they have in common.
Within the program of ST25, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma presents Intersezioni, a selection of two-channel video installation projects created by the students of the Photography and Video course.
Designing a multichannel video installation requires a substantial rethinking of how we understand video itself: its tools of production, its spatial setting, and the very act of reading the work.
The simultaneous projection of audiovisual materials on two screens activates in the viewer a more complex dynamic of perception. Watching means becoming aware of occupying a specific perceptive space, constantly asked to choose between focusing on one of the two perspectives—engaging in an analytical reading of the image—or embracing an overall vision that deciphers the connections and correspondences between the projections. Equally, the soundscape and its alignment—or deliberate misalignment—with the images complete, guide, and sometimes contradict the joint functioning of the devices.
Projection size, spatial arrangement, and sound design become key factors in the creation of the work. More radically, however, the very use of dual projections questions the linearity of narration: the story told by one video necessarily interferes with and co-determines the sense of the other.
Language choices, cinematography, rhythm, direction, and editing—the content and the form of each projection—inevitably shape corresponding solutions in the other, whether in agreement or in contrast.
The works in the program investigate the mechanisms of perception and the linearity of storytelling by playing on correspondences and dissonances, forcing the reading of images in order to generate an “intermediate” vision—an alternative comprehension that both sums up and transcends its single parts.
Virginia Broglio | Viaggio
two-channel video, color, sound, 1’ 28”, 2025
Martina Di Russo | Anna
two-channel video, color, sound, 2’ 54”, 2025
Eleonora Gioia | Engramma
two-channel video, color, sound, 2’ 35”, 2025
Matteo Farinelli | Ambienti illogici
two-channel video, color, sound, 4’ 04”, 2023
Maya Grassa | Afterglow
two-channel video, b/w and color, sound, 2’ 00”, 2025
Chiara Stella Landi | Tracce
two-channel video, color, sound, 1’ 32”, 2025
Francesca Palma Larizza | Untitled
two-channel video, color, sound, 1’ 22”, 2021
Michela Rosi | La Torre
two-channel video, color, sound, 2’ 02”, 2024
ph. still from the video installation Engramma by Eleonora Gioia