lettura

In lettura, the private act of reading a poem encounters the impersonal grammar of the game. In the Scratch & Win series, Zampogna brings the signs of the ticket into human situations; here the promise of luck meets an act that seeks no winning combination but lingers over words. The sheet holds the woman’s attention without showing its text to the viewer. Around her, small animal figures and green labels occupy the space of reading as signs ready to be associated and checked. Their graphic simplicity does not translate the poem into a result: the two languages remain close but do not coincide. Reading thus retains a time of its own, while the public code of the game attempts to assign an answer before it even knows the question.