Roundtrip/Her (Andata e Ritorno)

Roundtrip/Her is the starting‎ note of the story.
It is the representation of a physical and psychic plane journey that originated from a personal event: my mother’s death. The installation engages the viewer’s body and stimulates various senses. Before their eyes are images of clouds observed during the flight that brought me to my mother first and then back home after the funerals. Clouds are projected onto one of her garments that still bears her scent.
The audio retraces various stages of this journey: the heartbeats of a dear person, engine sounds from the plane during the outbound flight, one of the hymns sung by my mother in church. Then the sounds on the way back, rewound: again, those plane noises. Again, the music. To these are added, in rapid succession, the sound of cicadas that welcomed me back home, urban noises, church bells taking me back to my childhood but also, symbolically, taking my soul to heaven.