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In the works of Simonini and Yesakova, black is a space of tension and crisis, a surface that conceals layers, stratifications, incised and incendiary details. It is the visual articulation of Deleuze's principle in which repetition is never identical to itself, but always variation, difference, a process in motion. That repetition is never identical to itself, but always a variation, a process in motion. Yesakova examines repetition through the systematization of violence: historical classification, the conversion of tragedy into sequence, the reduction of reality to structure. Simonini, by contrast, engages with repetition through material and its iterations, where uniqueness resides in the fragment. In both cases, black is an accumulation, an entity in becoming which resists full interpretation. It is an act of erasure and a site of renewal, a space where ruin and resurgence intertwine. Black is a premonition, a question, an unresolved tension. O dark dark dark. They all go into the..