Flusso temporale

Temporal flow is a sound installation, composed of a burnt wood structure, inside which is placed the recording of a fire; the whole thing stands on a marble base. For millennia the temple has been a meeting place, a point of reference for Western society, like an immense accumulator many energies converged in it which thus became a resource for the entire community. These forces were channeled through various rituals performed within this sacred place. The priest and the faithful, like an electrical circuit that transmits energy to power the system, acted as intermediaries. The temple represented the cosmos, a mirror of who we are and of the celestial vault. In this work, as if by an act of self-combustion, the temple is reduced to ashes. The fire, a fundamental element for carrying out the ritual, symbolically generated by the community's energy influx, can no longer be controlled. Consumed by the same energy that once fueled it, in its apparent fragility, it retains its strength thanks to the action of fire which, by burning the material, transformed it from an object into a symbol.
The base, unharmed in white marble, stands out against the black of the temple, elevating it and at the same time isolating it from its context in an act of museumisation. This action, in stopping the flow of time, blocks the temple in its process of deterioration, maintaining, through the preservation of its external form, the memory of its history and the events that occurred inside it. At the same time, the memory of what happened manifests itself in the sound of the fire that continues to echo inside.

Tecnic: Sound installation.
Material: burnt wood and marble.
Single piece.