Nothing can move this house.
We are beings caught between the past and the future, standing on multiple plots, passages, and thresholds, in constant transition. The landscape, too, is subject to this eternal condition, freezing all its fragments and debris within itself. The fragment indeed sows doubt; yet the unfinished invites exploration, discovery. Disorder is essential, as the fragment’s strength lies precisely in its anarchic potential to provoke tension. The poetry of the incomplete is also that of the limitless. The space between fragments passes through the concept of construction. In traversing the gaps between these shards, their blurred zones, their sections of unpredictability, we may perhaps rediscover something that speaks to the ineffable and elusive nature of existence. Fragments of an atomized reality, intervals of space and time, separate events that are unanchored, floating on a flat surface that our mind will recompose according to the sole laws of its desire and emotions.
This is a territory shaped by the crossing of multiple forces. Its identity: fragmented, parcelled, broken. Greek and Roman Empire ruins coexist with an abandoned metallurgical plant, which covers much of the landscape. Then there is Nisida, originally born as a volcanic crater, later partially shattered by the sea waves, now an island. Once hosting the residence of the Roman general Brutus, Nisida was later converted into a prison under Spanish rule, and today serves as a juvenile detention center. Among other fragments that comprise this observed landscape are: multiple moorings, clubs managed by the mafia, specifically the Camorra, and various centers occupied by local residents.
A work composed of photographs, poems, drawings, informational texts, and archival elements. Like the choice to use various media, the wooden framework that supports the photographs and poems in the spatial arrangement aims to evoke the fragmentary nature of the territory. The interaction between positive and negative space, which surrounds and frames the elements of the work, creates a dynamic tension. Different elements reveal and emerge, like hidden clues, through the gaps, voids, and transparency of the structure.
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