Bruno Di Marino - Neurovisions: Bianco-Valente's videos, 2000
Suggestive and alluring, at times relaxing, more often disorienting, psychedelic and obsessive (like the "structuralist" succession of children's faces accompanied by a nursery rhyme in Mind Landscape) — their mnemonic images flow in a magmatic stream, boiling over like an unstoppable lava that sweeps away even the last bodily and figurative residue (again in Mind Landscape). Intermittences of the heart, of the mind and of vision, speaking to our present, past and future senses.
The essentiality of their "electrovisions", often monochrome (the pervasive blue of the recent videos “Deep in My Mind” and “Soft Luggage”, the red of “Untitled”), brings us back to a ground zero of the senses.
Bianco-Valente's use of technology is never baroque or excessive, but always carefully controlled.
The content lies in restraint itself, without needless dispersal of visual energy, and therefore of meaning. This philosophy of the essential stands opposed to the pervasive aesthetic of the so-called "post-organic", still too tied to the body as machine, to performance as a carnivalesque, neo-primitive ritual.
Standing before their work, one has the impression of discovering, as if for the first time, the kinetic-abstract image, eighty years after the experiments of the cinematic avant-gardes — a technological classicism that is never naive, never truly “poor”. Even as Bianco-Valente play with the "low definition" and "low resolution" of the basic visual process, they construct images of great formal perfection.
From the electronic image, they capture its evanescent, virtual, dynamic, metamorphic and, above all, neuronal nature. Video is an entirely mental process.
Freeing ourselves from the body means regenerating it: using the technological medium not to harness our machine of flesh even further, but to reduce it to pure thinking or pure seeing, through images that share the same nature as dreams. Thought is, in the end, the only possible reality (aesthetically too).