Annunciazione

The work is the last act of an experience I had four years ago in Liguria. The winter of 2012 was very harsh, and when the temperature dropped well below zero, the pipes froze, making it impossible to use water for several days, during which the absence of water conditioned my very existence, and everything revolved around this deprivation. One day I le the house and brought back a block of ice and a stone: in the studio I filmed the decay of the ice which I had placed beside the rock, and I kept the water, decanting it into a bottle. The work by Filippo Lippi L’Annunciazione Martelli, 1440, took me back to that episode today. The transparent container, placed in an ambiguous close-up between the Angel and the Virgin, both container and memory of the conception, is the symbol which allowed for the connection with the water that I kept for years: the message of the Annunciation is stored in the ice which, on melting, becomes the medium of good news by nourishing the rock, giving it life. Like in the alchemical process Solve et Coagula (dissolve and solidify) in which condensation and dissolution alternate, giving rise to changing forms, in Annunciazione this continuum of matter-energy is water, which continually changes state. The meditative dimension transcends until we ourselves become a participatory part of the dissolution and solidification process.
Single editions - technique : video post production, blown glass, wooden table, monitor.