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| category | Sculpture |
| subject | Abstract |
| tags | |
| base | 40 cm |
| height | 100 cm |
| depth | 15 cm |
| year | 2018 |
Untitled, 2018
chainmail, glass sphere, 100x40x15cm
A glass sphere rests on a sort of ventral sac, obtained from a chainmail. I see the latter as
a phantom, a casing emptied of the body, that carries a predictive tool. The glass sphere is
a potentially all-encompassing, transparent, and at the same time cryptic container. Shining
with reflected light, it refers to a lunar type of knowledge, i-e- based on irrational
intuition rather than on the dissection of words and concepts. The work can be read as an
evocation of magical thinking, of its persistence in contemporary narratives. The topos of
clairvoyance, in fact, today returns in the form of hyper-advanced technologies, such as the
predictive algorithms used in Data analysis.
chainmail, glass sphere, 100x40x15cm
A glass sphere rests on a sort of ventral sac, obtained from a chainmail. I see the latter as
a phantom, a casing emptied of the body, that carries a predictive tool. The glass sphere is
a potentially all-encompassing, transparent, and at the same time cryptic container. Shining
with reflected light, it refers to a lunar type of knowledge, i-e- based on irrational
intuition rather than on the dissection of words and concepts. The work can be read as an
evocation of magical thinking, of its persistence in contemporary narratives. The topos of
clairvoyance, in fact, today returns in the form of hyper-advanced technologies, such as the
predictive algorithms used in Data analysis.
