Cement Blanche
I replace the physical, numerical, tangible meaning of the word weight, with its figurative one, more difficult to quantify because of internal and external reasons.
'Weight' is meant as the attribution of different and personal meaning, gravity, but also value, to situations, words and actions by each human being. Weight as a burden of past circumstances imprinted in our mental (sometimes cultural) DNA.
I try to make visible an invisible world: the one we perceive.
Objects as symbols of mutual exchange within typical social situations in an outlandish living room imagined as a playground for communication.
The nature of these objects is deliberately ephemeral, for temporary installations, not written in cement but open; it can be different in the next “encounter”, as much as interpersonal communications and relationships can be.
The actual material they are made of is the epitome of lightness: leftovers of crumbled rubber foam (in Italian “gomma-piuma” = feather rubber) reassembled together like cement sculptures. Their effective weight is declared: a number impressed on their own body like a given label, an indelible mark, which, on the contrary of what a social label usually does, recalls the lability of its essence. |Every gaze determines not only a different reading but also a new version of what we communicate, each time conditioned by that gaze.
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