“Keep your distance: shouted the Physical Education teacher.
And we stretched out our arms to mark the space.
The distance of each person within the multitude?
Indeed, Manuela Sedmach, after the “hijackers”, has discovered the crowd.
From the distance between the other side, the one beyond the dripped glaze of fiction, and the real on this side, to the internal distance.
Using painting to keep distance, to mark difference, is an affirmation of spacing, rather than detachment or intrusion, and of thickness, in regard to surface and depth.”

Elio Grazioli