work
Mundus patet
| category | Installation |
| subject | Nature, Landscape, Political / Social |
| base | 410 cm |
| height | 273 cm |
| depth | 2 cm |
| year | 2022 |
513 digital images acquired by scanner en plain air, printed on Epson matt paper; video 4’ 57"; prints on paper
The installation, a photographic wall and a video, exhibited at the Oktagon in Dresden, is part of a larger project that includes two other walls and a series of maps.
The title refers to an ancient, religious celebration happening on august 24th, during which the Romans came into contact with the ground through a big spherical hole, situated under the Palatino.
Doing so, they celebrated their relationship with the Earth, hidden from the connection with the world of the dead.
On august 24, 2016 un earthquake destroyed my family house taking away the lives of three people, my mom’s and two young children’s.
A walk in those physical and mental places, gives me the possibility to get and store fragments, pieces of world, objects, living and inanimate matter, the nature.
We cannot think about people without thinking about places.
The human nature is always mingled with the material aspects of life: objects, buildings, landscapes, and vibes affect our lives, and they act on our history in unforeseeable ways.
513 images taken with a scanner describe 171 objects, mostly glass, belonging to my mother, 171 stones that were the walls of the house, 171 apple tree branches from an adjacent piece of land.
The scanner allows me to capture the objects surrounded by the atmosphere.
The video, a melody of black and white diagrams, is made of a sequence of images of the house, the apple orchard, and the surrounding mountain landscape, transformed by the oscilloscope.
The soundtrack of birdsong has been recordered during a winter trip.
The installation, a photographic wall and a video, exhibited at the Oktagon in Dresden, is part of a larger project that includes two other walls and a series of maps.
The title refers to an ancient, religious celebration happening on august 24th, during which the Romans came into contact with the ground through a big spherical hole, situated under the Palatino.
Doing so, they celebrated their relationship with the Earth, hidden from the connection with the world of the dead.
On august 24, 2016 un earthquake destroyed my family house taking away the lives of three people, my mom’s and two young children’s.
A walk in those physical and mental places, gives me the possibility to get and store fragments, pieces of world, objects, living and inanimate matter, the nature.
We cannot think about people without thinking about places.
The human nature is always mingled with the material aspects of life: objects, buildings, landscapes, and vibes affect our lives, and they act on our history in unforeseeable ways.
513 images taken with a scanner describe 171 objects, mostly glass, belonging to my mother, 171 stones that were the walls of the house, 171 apple tree branches from an adjacent piece of land.
The scanner allows me to capture the objects surrounded by the atmosphere.
The video, a melody of black and white diagrams, is made of a sequence of images of the house, the apple orchard, and the surrounding mountain landscape, transformed by the oscilloscope.
The soundtrack of birdsong has been recordered during a winter trip.
