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| category | Installation |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | |
| base | 200 cm |
| height | 200 cm |
| depth | 300 cm |
| year | 2021 |
"Above this level there will be only free space."
sea rock (metalized in aluminum) and polaroids,2021, La Galleria Nazionale di Roma
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist
The Kármán line, is an imaginary line set at a height of 100 km above sea level that marks the imaginary boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
In that area "our" air becomes progressively more rarefied and dispersed, moving away from the Earth's surface until it becomes "free space". Therefore, there is no clear boundary between the beginning of space and the beginning of the Earth's atmosphere, it is more of a slow fade more or less gradual towards the universe.
The work lies within this -Free Space-, this nuance that passes from ultramarine blue to absolute black;
Within this place/non-place, concepts such as spatial and temporal coordinates, definitions, rules, laws, distinctions of any kind lose their meaning and become part of the whole.
The only human beings, men and/or women, who can say they have been just beyond this line of free thought, are the astronauts.
The work is composed of two elements: a silver-colored "meteorite" (aluminum) placed on the floor of the museum room with a few meters away on the opposite wall, a polaroid attached to the wall showing an astronaut (Samantha Cristoforetti) intent on performing with her nose an exercise of air compensation inside the space helmet.
These two points placed in space trace an invisible axis through which the viewer moves in order to better observe the photograph; thus gravitating within this hypothetical section of "free space", an arbitrary line beyond which it is possible to recover an "infinite" sense of freedom.
sea rock (metalized in aluminum) and polaroids,2021, La Galleria Nazionale di Roma
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist
The Kármán line, is an imaginary line set at a height of 100 km above sea level that marks the imaginary boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
In that area "our" air becomes progressively more rarefied and dispersed, moving away from the Earth's surface until it becomes "free space". Therefore, there is no clear boundary between the beginning of space and the beginning of the Earth's atmosphere, it is more of a slow fade more or less gradual towards the universe.
The work lies within this -Free Space-, this nuance that passes from ultramarine blue to absolute black;
Within this place/non-place, concepts such as spatial and temporal coordinates, definitions, rules, laws, distinctions of any kind lose their meaning and become part of the whole.
The only human beings, men and/or women, who can say they have been just beyond this line of free thought, are the astronauts.
The work is composed of two elements: a silver-colored "meteorite" (aluminum) placed on the floor of the museum room with a few meters away on the opposite wall, a polaroid attached to the wall showing an astronaut (Samantha Cristoforetti) intent on performing with her nose an exercise of air compensation inside the space helmet.
These two points placed in space trace an invisible axis through which the viewer moves in order to better observe the photograph; thus gravitating within this hypothetical section of "free space", an arbitrary line beyond which it is possible to recover an "infinite" sense of freedom.
