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Two vertical ladders that cross each other without ever touching, one ascending/descending the other.
Both in mythological/religious culture (as an axial symbol) and in social culture, the ladder represents a motion of ascent/descent, the rungs alluding to the levels/roads towards a higher or lower stage.
In Papi's work the two ladders, one for ascending, the other for descending, penetrate each other without ever intersecting, demonstrating a profound if intangible bond. The work leads us to reflect on the dynamics of social inequality in which the ascent to a more affluent status for someone entails an invisible descent to a lower level of affluence for someone else. In the Western neo-liberal culture, the ascent, in a climb, is only possible by exploiting and trampling on the lower rungs until reaching the top of the social pyramid, and since the top can only accommodate a few, every time a new climber reaches the top, automatically someone has to leave it by taking advantage of a more devious ladder.

The title of the work, 'H', derives both from the graphic form of the capital letter, similar to the fundamental matrix that makes up a rung ladder; and from the devious diacritical function of the letter, capable of changing the meaning and pronunciation of a word despite being silent. The letter 'H' has and gives value exclusively in relation to other letters as well as, in a society, every individual.