Of the important contemporary media artists, Fabrizio Plessi knows like no other how to hover between semblance and reality. The avant-garde of Modern art claimed that art and life - and thus simulation and being - were identical. They believed that the progress of art consisted in art's trespassing into life. For Plessi, no: he drives fiction into reality in order to stop almost immediately in the act of overturning the real; he fixes the fiction while it is still a semblance, and brings it into dramatic contact with reality. This balance between believe-it's-the-truth and the truth of reality, this strained relation between semblance and being, consititutes the terrain in which poetry, as well as fiction, are born.

Heinrich Klotz, Director, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie

Artwork after artwork. Years and years of work.
But what, ultimately, is the aim of all this work?
To modify and invert the lapidary and static order of things.
This is my work.
To alter the rational perspective scheme of our perception.
This is my work.
To overturn the very meaning of the work and extend its potential beyond circumscribed confines.
This is my work.
To run across unkown terrain using as yet unproven strategies.
This is my work.
To enter and exit endlessly, to and from the confines of preconstituted logic.
This is my work.
To cross diagonally, without any complexes of orthodoxy, the separation and discomfort of creativity.
This, and only this, is my work.

Fabrizio Plessi