work
POLVERE
| category | Installation |
| subject | Nature |
| tags | mountains, marble, marmo, estrattivisto, apuane, carrara, nature |
| base | 10 cm |
| height | 12 cm |
| depth | 9 cm |
| year | 2021 |
An installation of piramidal forms made with compress dust, sucrifies its form to be moved and scomposed by visitator’s steps.
I lived for seven years in Carrara and I have confronted myself in various ways about its mining reality by getting to know Crude realities in calcium carbonate industry that obtain powder from the 80 % of the extracted marble.
This public and relational installation resizes and recomposes this reality.
So I start "playing" with the dust with the intention to reconstruct the mountains through their scrap, and then leave them to the public, who play with them, trample them, dance around them,
to these fragile forms,
which are nothing else
that the symbol of an open wound.
The installation was presented twice in Carrara:
the first one in Vicolo dell'Arancio in single;
the second one as a collective opening performance on the occasion of an event proposed by the collective of Athamanta of Carrara.
The phrase "is one of the most important things to put on a flower's wish list. What's left? Dust." refers precisely to this collective that identifies itself with the name of a flower in danger of extinction due to extractivism.
The pyramidal shapes are made of compressed marble dust (CaCO3) taken from the scraps of a Damien Hirst’s sculpture in production in the famous TorArt lab in Fantiscritti.
10x12x9 cad
installation variable dimentions
I lived for seven years in Carrara and I have confronted myself in various ways about its mining reality by getting to know Crude realities in calcium carbonate industry that obtain powder from the 80 % of the extracted marble.
This public and relational installation resizes and recomposes this reality.
So I start "playing" with the dust with the intention to reconstruct the mountains through their scrap, and then leave them to the public, who play with them, trample them, dance around them,
to these fragile forms,
which are nothing else
that the symbol of an open wound.
The installation was presented twice in Carrara:
the first one in Vicolo dell'Arancio in single;
the second one as a collective opening performance on the occasion of an event proposed by the collective of Athamanta of Carrara.
The phrase "is one of the most important things to put on a flower's wish list. What's left? Dust." refers precisely to this collective that identifies itself with the name of a flower in danger of extinction due to extractivism.
The pyramidal shapes are made of compressed marble dust (CaCO3) taken from the scraps of a Damien Hirst’s sculpture in production in the famous TorArt lab in Fantiscritti.
10x12x9 cad
installation variable dimentions
