“… Interested in restoring the responsibility of the gesture to an artistic intervention, in Kill the Butterfly Consani symbolically put his work in the background with respect to the social frame that was to house it. In Kill the Butterfly. The artist decided to highlight the truth of the event that led to the arrest and repatriation of a young Albanian without a residence permit, due to a fire started by the latter following the request of the exhibition organizers to burn the rubbish occupying the open area where the sculpture was to be positioned. This was not then exhibited, and the work took shape starting from the documentation of the fire. The artist felt that it was in part his own, that he was an involuntary co-author of an unplanned action, for which he seemed to want to ascertain the specific value of a widespread social responsibility.”
(Matteo Lucchetti)
