faraway (so close)

The installation has a bare, essential form, reminiscent of the industrial world.
It consists of an iron table on which two motorized pulleys and a chain are mounted.
A blade of paper runs over the pulleys, while several cylindrical supports are fixed to the chain to hold flowers upright.
The chain moves slowly and inexorably toward the paper blade, leading each flower, one after the other, to be decapitated—thus undergoing an inevitable homogenization.
At the entrance to the exhibition, each visitor is given a cut flower, and is invited to interact with the installation, thereby taking part in the creative-destructive process.
The work invites the viewer to observe the tension between order and disintegration, and to become part of a relentless yet aesthetically poetic dynamic, prompting reflection on control and inevitability, on both physical and emotional separation.

title

Faraway (so close)

Date

2021

medium

aluminum table, electric engines, paper blade, flowers

Size

cm 200X120X90

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