Toderi’s work is distinctive for the innovative way in which she uses video to delve into a microcosm of events that appear insignificant but are in fact loaded with powerful reflections on the human condition. A dialogue with literature and especially painting is central to Toderi’s aesthetic, and her videos actually seem to reject the immediate dynamism that distinguishes the medium.

In describing the work, the artist’s website states that she ‘chose to project video because her material is light that travels and that appears when it encounters a surface, and also because it can be transmitted simultaneously throughout the world. Light also makes our existence possible, arriving from the stars, a mysterious energy with which we play and live. And it is while looking at the light that draws luminous geometries in the sky –the constellations– that man has built cities, seeking a continuous relationship between sky and earth.’ Orbite Rosse was originally made for inclusion in the exhibition Making Worlds at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.

Image: Orbite Rosse, 2009, © Grazia Toderi