work
Fabula
| category | Video |
| subject | Landscape, Nature |
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| minutes | 70 |
| seconds | 0 |
| year | 2022 |
The public debate on environmental issues, which for years has focused on combating the climate and energy crisis, rarely seems to address the systemic emergency we are facing. It is a disruption of living things and ecosystems, which endangers ecological dynamics, evolutionary potential, our subsistence and that of future generations. But it is also a crisis in our relationships with other living beings.
Fabula is a year-long journey through the places once inhabited by the Sicilian wolf (Canis lupus cristaldii), the last specimen of which was culled around one hundred years ago. A disappearance that was decisive both for the ecosystem balance and for the loss of a historical/cultural heritage linked for centuries to what was considered the symbol of a wild world, endowed with strength, cunning and wickedness. Mechanical images taken from photo-traps (instruments used by biologists and hunters), carefully positioned by the artist after long tracing, show an "other" world: what remains of the wilderness that has always been an object of fear, circumscription and erasure. Acheropite" representations show us a nocturnal dimension not yet entirely tamed. Those same territories that become Sunday extensions of city gardens and 'habitats' for our leisure time, come alive with surprising new activity.
As the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot writes: 'It is to be hoped that a diplomat who has gone to inforest himself with other living beings will return transformed, quietly undeveloped, far from the phantasmal ferocity attributed to the Others. May he who allows himself to be inforested by other living beings return slightly modified from his werewolf journey: a half-breed, straddling two worlds. Neither debased nor purified, simply other and a minimum able to travel between worlds, and to make them communicate, to work towards the realisation of a common world".
Ivan Terranova's video-installation projects us into an unexplored geography, making us experience an ancestral time. A time when they shared the same needs and spaces with other forms of the living. A time when humans and animals, wild and domesticated, were not yet so clearly distinguishable.
Fabula is a year-long journey through the places once inhabited by the Sicilian wolf (Canis lupus cristaldii), the last specimen of which was culled around one hundred years ago. A disappearance that was decisive both for the ecosystem balance and for the loss of a historical/cultural heritage linked for centuries to what was considered the symbol of a wild world, endowed with strength, cunning and wickedness. Mechanical images taken from photo-traps (instruments used by biologists and hunters), carefully positioned by the artist after long tracing, show an "other" world: what remains of the wilderness that has always been an object of fear, circumscription and erasure. Acheropite" representations show us a nocturnal dimension not yet entirely tamed. Those same territories that become Sunday extensions of city gardens and 'habitats' for our leisure time, come alive with surprising new activity.
As the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot writes: 'It is to be hoped that a diplomat who has gone to inforest himself with other living beings will return transformed, quietly undeveloped, far from the phantasmal ferocity attributed to the Others. May he who allows himself to be inforested by other living beings return slightly modified from his werewolf journey: a half-breed, straddling two worlds. Neither debased nor purified, simply other and a minimum able to travel between worlds, and to make them communicate, to work towards the realisation of a common world".
Ivan Terranova's video-installation projects us into an unexplored geography, making us experience an ancestral time. A time when they shared the same needs and spaces with other forms of the living. A time when humans and animals, wild and domesticated, were not yet so clearly distinguishable.
