Alberto Maggini took part in the exhibition ‘Over and over and over we become’ at the end of his art residency at SEA Foundation.

Similarly, as in his previous works e.g. Same as our tongues we are melting with the landscape (2022), Maggini encourages us to unlearn the body and deconstruct it into parts to become anew in metamorphosis. This process of transformation is needed in order to recontextualise the humanature relationship which is until now, in Western logic, placing a human figure in the centre only on the backdrop of nature. 

For his work at SEA Foundation, Alberto Maggini takes inspiration from female whiptail lizard species which are known to procreate without the need for the male sex. Like Doris Lessing in her novel The Cleft, Maggini gives importance to the rise of a matriarch. While Lessing is concerned with re-creating the mythology by presenting a woman as the first human, Maggini aims to queer the human and narrate the person who synergizes with nature. He reimagines human re-creation through the synthesis of a woman and a lizard. This utopian eco-fabulating allows him to rupture established normative codes and binaries that are used to identify us. 

‘Over and over and over’ we become is a group exhibition exploring the human nature relationships as synergetic, interdependent, and crafted through the process of making as well as language. It encourages the viewer to reimagine ways of relating. ‘Over and over and over’ is a passage borrowed from a text written by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer, who explains that many stories have already been told and therefore, the new erupts in repetition; if we are willing to tune in.

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