IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT FOREVER is about the ongoing discourse on the banal universe of static things, of how immortality itself, when turned into the subject of art, becomes framed as something banal. Departing from a generation of exhibitions fascinated with the quick and the dead, IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT FOREVER grapples with the ongoing struggle against this certain cosmological indifference.

In this two-man exhibition, Wawi Navarroza and Costantino Zicarelli take this on by challenging the traditional concept of “still life” by actualizing “a still life” by precisely muting their subjects. As Wawi conceals inanimate present objects in the principle that “invisibility is a form of mortality”, she likewise brings to life an inventory of lost images. Costantino, on the other hand, rekindles the blurred and antonymous relationship between the still and the moving, the actual and its illusion by portraying subjects from the former’s region. In doing so, they are delivered from the object that forms their prison.

In this exhibition, Costantino and Wawi kill by removing their subjects from their particular purpose in the world but, through the act of selecting them as subjects to this series, keeps them alive.