Una volta qui era tutta campagna

The walls of a space not only define a place and sometimes a specific function, but also collect on their surface the actions that have been performed on them over time. In Una volta qui era tutta campagna (Once it was all countryside here), the walls of the art gallery become the holders of the history of the place. Over time, the artists who have passed through the space have accumulated signs and traces on the walls that remain invisible to the eye. By means of thermographic scanning, it has been possible to recover and make visible the gestures made on the surface. The result is a unique vision that expresses the accumulation of time in a single image. Cold and warm marks form a pattern, rendered by printing the resulting thermography on transparent polyester fabric, subsequently installed on a pole anchored in a single point. This device lays bare the dormant — as much as overt — condition of time, which manifests itself through a veil of perceptual intensity.