The conceptual density of Sabrina Mezzaqui’s work emerges amid a delicate weave of refined visual forms. For this exhibition, titled “Mettere a dimora” (Planting), the artist presented a series of new works from 2008, including the videos Le libellule blu (Blue Dragonflies) and Lucciole (Fireflies). In these, Mezzaqui focuses on small events: the passage of dragonflies over a river; the nocturnal flight of fireflies around a light. The gaze that closes in on each event isolates it from its surroundings. The video camera records the insects’ movements, but in the case of Lucciole, the circumscribed