Gregorio de Matos writes these verses in the 17th century, depicting a time worried about the ephemeral nature of existence and upset by the succession of political and religious conflicts, as well as epidemics, especially the Black Death. The poet explores the stability existence idea only in the uncertainty consistency, the silence period that precedes war or bang.

Almost 400 years later, we go through similar issues, not so much because of diseases, but because of the political and religious extremism that makes us go back to questionings on rights acquired more than 30 years ago, such as the breakthroughs in the recognition of women's individual and social rights, natives� rights and environmental protection. Elections have become popularity contests instead of being a rational debate of proposals. In the meantime, unsuspicious voters revel in fake news, jumbled posts, and committed "likes" and "dislikes".

As we adapt and reinvent more "sustainable" ways of sharing and living together, consumption and social networks continue to grow as an almost-orgasmic-pleasure source; everything is sold, bought, exposed, "posted." In fact, this mode of life dedicated to the external and to appearance even imposes beauty patterns that are slaughtering and, to some extent, unattainable. Since the real world does not allow corrections of apps such as Facetune or Airbrush, plastic surgeries, treatments and "miracle" remedies are used. And if self-image has become a source of such anxiety, what to say about expectations created regarding potential partners? Isolated from the rest of the planet by 'commercial' prejudice, people begin to evaluate their love interests as if they were choosing clothes: they search not for virtues, but for amenities.

Not even a seagull ... As Marisa Florida César said, "the only subtitle that appears in the artwork Bang alerts us: we are in the suspension of the "not yet", which precedes the gunshot, the camera click, the outbreak of the tragic event - the war. A second so suffocating that it seems to extend ad eternum." Bang, Bang ...

We live a moment of reticence. The uncertain transition between two reckless governments insinuates a society between euphoria and sadness. Without offering answers, the exhibition suggests questions by opposing artists from different generations: What rules our priorities? How do we see the transition periods in the past and in the present? Where are we going?