Patate e Spinaci | Toast Project Space

Toast Project presents Patate e Spinaci, a solo exhibition by Alessandro Agudio.
The project takes its starting point from extremely familiar images, gestures, and forms, observed for long enough that they begin to lose their self-evidence.
Among these, an image from Agudio’s childhood in Taccona di Muggiò, in the Milanese hinterland, resurfaces: that of the community gardens, a vast grid of small plots of land organized and assigned by the municipality to retirees. An orderly landscape, made up of repeated sections, cultivated individually yet brought together within a shared structure, which returns today as a distant memory.
In the project, this image overlaps with others belonging to the present. What is everyday and recognizable is passed through repetition, observation, and memory until it gradually loses a precise identity and takes on the consistency of a landscape.
The repetition of a gesture, as well as prolonged and distracted observation, opens up a state akin to absent-mindedness. It is within this suspension, between memory and perception, sculptural practice and digression, that Potatoes and Spinach takes shape.