SPINGERE LA CIRCOSCRIZIONE DELLO SPAZIO PER AMPLIARE LO SPAZIO INTERIORE

Site specific installation in the public fontain Montebelluna (Italy) 2021
Openstudio in Petraschgasse 1200 Vienna 2017
Museo Civico Palazzo Santi, Cascia, (PG) 2016
63 aluminium letters
Curtesy by the artist

This conceptual installation, displayed inside one of the two fountains in Guglielmo Marconi Square, pushes the circumscription of space to expand inner space. It is made up of aluminium letters arranged next to each other to form this phrase.The work carries with it the dimension of relationship; it stems from an encounter between the artist and a cloistered nun, when the artist heard the nun's warm voice beyond the convent grate. Despite coming from a circumscribed place, the words were able to expand sensations and create and consolidate awareness.
The installation inhabits, blends in with and dialogues with the space in which it is displayed and the person experiencing it. By reading the words, we become aware of an unconscious process we perform daily when living in or passing through a place. By moving, we shape our surroundings according to ourselves, creating a dimension and defining relationships, distances or cancellations. Our presence and movements always interact with our surroundings, changing them over time.When we move in environments that we know well, to which we are accustomed and in which we have already defined our spaces, we pass through them with extreme mastery, indifferent to the visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory and gustatory stimuli that they may convey to us.In contrast, when we find ourselves in unfamiliar contexts, we activate all our senses, capturing images to help us find our way, and taking in scents and sounds to help us remember. We try to understand where we are and what we can do in that place. Space determines how we are and how we feel. By becoming aware of this, we can change our relationship with our environment and with ourselves.
The work was previously exhibited in Vienna and at Palazzo Santi in Cascia in 2016. For the 2021 edition of the "Urban Visions – Art Meets People" festival, the work has been installed inside the fountain in Marconi Square in Montebelluna. For this occasion, the artist has proposed donating the work itself.