“Four thousand people have decided to get at least one X tattooed and to be portrayed with a black and white photographic diptych, to bear witness to the collapse and poisoning of our so-called civilization and perhaps to suggest an antidote”
— Alfredo Meschi
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE is an artistic project that was born in 2017 with the meeting between Alfredo Meschi and Massimo Giovannini. On a March evening in Arco, on Lake Garda, thanks to a mutual friend, Vieri Molinari, organizer of the event, for the first time twenty-nine people decide to put their own face and skin into it and to give life to what is becoming an unprecedented community in the contemporary art world. The multitude of Xs tattooed on Alfredo's body (read his Manifesto here) and the power of Massimo's portraits have in fact continued to inspire hundreds and hundreds of people all over the world since that evening. The project has already received official recognition by one of the most important Contemporary Art museums, the Macro Asilo in Rome with an exhibition and a performance, and the dream of tattooing and portraying four thousand witnesses seems less and less just a dream, the first thousand is almost achieved. Through this site, our blog and the Instagram profile we document the stages of approaching the 4,000 goal, we delve into the philosophical roots of the project and we explore the potential of this small but great movement! We are experiencing a moment of environmental, social and ethical challenges of proportions never seen before in our history, an entire geological era takes its name from one of its animal species, the only one to have been ominously capable of altering the balance of the whole Earth. IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, paraphrasing the writer, poet and activist Alice Walker, is for us "the rent we pay to live on this planet".
