It is the path through memory and the possibility of reliving in the present some moments of the past that led Alessandro Puccia, an artist from Varese, born in 1990, to create the photographic journey for the Hermitage of Santa Caterina del Sasso in which he reconstructs two fundamental elements of his road in the world of art: water and faith.

Through snapshots of water crystals he talks about life and the path of faith that through "blue gold" has always manifested itself and is its symbol. Almost a birth to a new life that took place through a gift, as a gift it is existence itself.

The exhibition itinerary develops inside the Hermitage and dialogues with its spaces, entering into a relationship with the devotion and faith that has pervaded it for centuries. The works, exhibited starting from the second room located under the portico of the southern convent, tell and represent the beginning of the artist's story and in particular the need born in him to want to investigate around the element of water and why he started to photograph the crystals.

What happened next tells of a path of reading and understanding of an intimate and dreamlike message of purification through water. Water that first becomes the object of study through the reading of the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, known for his experiments on what he calls the memory of water, a theory according to which a relationship is created between human thoughts and the states of water which, exposed to different stimuli, would change its frequency, modifying the visible structure to our eyes through the crystals. It is the reading of his studies that influences Alessandro's life and artistic research.

The exhibition, created in close collaboration with the artist, is sponsored by the Province of Varese, the Municipality of Leggiuno and the FAI Delegations of Varese and Valcuvia Luino and Verbano Orientale.

It was made possible thanks to the precious contribution of the Asset Company of the Province of Varese Srl, of Selgrafh - graphics and printing, of GESTA and Designuovo.