Nel tentativo di tornare a nuotare

Every year, shark finning, the practice of removing the fins of sharks in most cases still alive, generates a very lucrative market. The animal, having undergone one or more mutilations, is thrown back into the sea and unable to swim effectively, sinks to the bottom.

“Nel tentativo di tornare a nuotare” (In an attempt to swim again) is the sculptural project that looks at the mutilated limb, at the removed part that feels the call of the phantom body. It is matter that gives itself new legs, prostheses to return to the structure to which it belongs. A utopian journey perhaps, but at the same time a necessary action to take for the survival of the species. What is shown is a hybrid body that is generated under adverse circumstances: a metal figure made of aluminium, bionic. This new being thus formed is about to leave, in a moment frozen in time but projected into the near future. The legs, so foreign to water as they are congenial to dry land, summarise a necessary evolutionary step, a techne that the fin uses to return to its original body.