A word from the author

The pack hides a work of art, but it could also easily be a simple empty container, i.e. a work of art in itself: it’s up to the person who has it to decide whether to keep it as is or open it and discover what’s in the container, though its existence isn’t certain. If there’s nothing there, the owner has ruined the object, driven by his curiosity in an unusual gamble, where creation-illusion-destruction follow on another with inevitable necessity. The gesture become a risk: discovery of something hidden or irreversible destruction, a happy discovery or bitter surprise? And the pack almost takes on the nature of a metaphor for many a moment in our lives: attractive while still hidden by the future, often a disillusion once actually experienced.

Luigi Sergi Novara 1998