work
Quando se n’è andato il te bambino?
| category | Installation |
| subject | Human figure, Political / Social, Travels |
| tags | asfalto, peluches, infanzia, adulto, età, innocenza, bambini |
| base | 100 cm |
| height | 13 cm |
| depth | 48 cm |
| year | 2024 |
“Quando se n'è andato il te bambino?” This is an installation made of asphalt and a stuffed toy. One of a kind.
A plush rabbit lies motionless, abandoned face down on two fragments of asphalt. Innocence, embodied by a fragile and familiar object, is crushed under the weight of change, of growing up, of loss.
By nature, a stuffed toy is an inanimate object, lifeless, but in this case it seems to have lost something even more—something that once gave it a kind of life, that magical quality these kinds of objects often seem to have.
The asphalt, cold and bare, evokes the landscape of a broken road, a place of transit that offers no rest and no return. The scene it creates—almost suspended—seems to show us an ideal space between being a child and becoming an adult.
On one side we have the rabbit, a symbol of tenderness and vulnerability, which here becomes the silent witness of an inevitable, yet never fully accepted, separation.
In the fragment of asphalt, instead, lies the weight of reality, the abrupt transition that often forces us to leave behind who we were, with no chance of recovery.
The invitation is to reflect on that moment—if it was a moment—on that trauma or on that slow, inexorable, and often imperceptible process.
The piece reflects on the harshness with which the passage into adulthood is often imposed on us, leaving us without time to say goodbye to the symbols of comfort and protection.
It’s a work that invites us to reflect not only on who we have become, but also on who and what we had to leave behind to get here, and how much time has passed since then.
A plush rabbit lies motionless, abandoned face down on two fragments of asphalt. Innocence, embodied by a fragile and familiar object, is crushed under the weight of change, of growing up, of loss.
By nature, a stuffed toy is an inanimate object, lifeless, but in this case it seems to have lost something even more—something that once gave it a kind of life, that magical quality these kinds of objects often seem to have.
The asphalt, cold and bare, evokes the landscape of a broken road, a place of transit that offers no rest and no return. The scene it creates—almost suspended—seems to show us an ideal space between being a child and becoming an adult.
On one side we have the rabbit, a symbol of tenderness and vulnerability, which here becomes the silent witness of an inevitable, yet never fully accepted, separation.
In the fragment of asphalt, instead, lies the weight of reality, the abrupt transition that often forces us to leave behind who we were, with no chance of recovery.
The invitation is to reflect on that moment—if it was a moment—on that trauma or on that slow, inexorable, and often imperceptible process.
The piece reflects on the harshness with which the passage into adulthood is often imposed on us, leaving us without time to say goodbye to the symbols of comfort and protection.
It’s a work that invites us to reflect not only on who we have become, but also on who and what we had to leave behind to get here, and how much time has passed since then.
