We are moving from the Dark MatterS Festival 2026 – a driving force into the night and the wild to embrace mystery – towards the collective wonder and enthusiasm that will erupt in the rites of passage of our Spring Rolls Festival, with special amulets that challenge us to hold the in-between space by anchoring us in the transition itself.
Guided by the question of the Second open call of the Blog – what does the unforeseen awaken – the amulets invite us to experience the awakening as a slowly burning,
continuous,
mantric state,
preparing us to ride the eruption that follows.
1
Arrival is a fluctuating threshold.
a duration promising
a climax,
collapse of past and present,
awakening of untamed bodies.
2
A dense, restless landscape,
permeated by echoes of memory and poetry.
A circular space, where figures never touch:
but sparkle
by forever moving towards.
3
Spring doesn’t arrive all at once.
It seeps in, hesitates, returns, withdraws,
and comes again.
4
Time does not pass but dilates, thins.
Moments linger,
the present feels neither anchored nor pulled.
Images Marta Montoni and text Kadri Sirel,
tracing the artistic residencies of
Fabritia D’Intino “LIMBO I How low can you go“,
Giovanfrancesco Giannini “NICO, DESERTSHORE” and
Stefania Tansini “Madeleine”
taking place in Lavanderia a Vapore between March and April 2025.