AGONIA

AGONIA is an immersive installation that reflects on social immobility and everyday sacrifice through real and symbolic elements. At its center stands an antique clock taken from a poor Sicilian family — a material trace of slow time, halted development and generational endurance. Environmental heaters saturate the space with oppressive heat, turning temperature into a form of physical and social pressure. The viewer enters a suspended condition, forced to withstand a time that refuses to move, echoing the lives of those who remain stuck while others progress. AGONIA explores the threshold between presence and exhaustion, using heat and duration as metaphors for human fragility, silent resistance and structural inequality.