Across

Across

Progetto espositivo realizzato in occasione del 20° Anniversario della caduta del muro di Berlino.

Galería Ingresso Pericoloso. Roma.
Diciembre 2009

La definizione di una semplice linea, tracciata fisicamente o simbolicamente, retta o curva, nitida o nebulosa, frammentata o infinita, caratterizza gran parte della nostra storia recente. Delimitando un confine non solo si può stabilire una differenza, una separazione o un contrasto di qualunque natura, ma diventa anche facile inserire una polarità che diviene gradualmente insita nell’immaginario collettivo, istigando a cadere in un dualismo che vieta, cela o nasconde una comprensione più articolata della realtà.

Environmental dimension installation.

This project’s main idea was based on that line defined above and, in iron curtain phrase, as it was known as the border between two antagonistic worlds during the second half of the 20th century and early 90s, with Soviet Union’s breakup. A rope wall, a curtain that did not let the bodies through, the anguish and love of the beings who were trapped on both sides. Using my image as a prototype, and carrying textures expressly brought from Berlin, I provided twelve different glances that I used to communicate and carry those feelings, questions and emotions that were fragmented between the black cordage. A string’s minimum frontier that did not allow body contact. Only the gaze. Strings scattered on the floor, tangled and trapping the scissors. Scissors that were used to cut those same tendons (dreams and lives) and now buried and useless, but always harmful and bitter. Black and dark lines, that hide a vision, a limit, a reality.