Autoritratto con problemi problemi, 1995

Grazia Toderi’s images pertain to this world but convey a view of it that is difficult to achieve while remaining firmly anchored to it. Avoiding narrative, her videos initially focused on the domestic microcosm, before rising up to an aerial and sometimes even cosmic perspective. In Toderi’s videos, even time, which in this world cannot be experienced except as an irremediably linear sequence, follows different laws and is presented in a cyclical manner that abolishes the concepts of before and after, beginning and end. [...]