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Video HD Colour/sound, 19'
2022
Il mostro non ha lingua (The monster has no tongue/language) is my final Bachelor thesis project. The starting point of the work is a written reflection on the imaginative, expressive, and phantasmal power of drawing. Stemming from these reflections, a practical work was developed in parallel, consisting of the vid- eo-documentation of a site-specific performance in the Venice Lido.
The written part proposes an expansion of the concept of drawing by weaving together a story that emphasizes the practice’s communicative excess, with a par- ticular focus on the role it has historically played in the undermining of the limits between natural and artificial signs, rationality and irrationality. This is addressed drawing together examples from the history of art, as well as science and nature. Gaston Bachelard’s concept of rêverie, the figure of the monster in Jean Clair and Georges Didi-Huberman’s reflection on the trace play a central role.
The second part consists of the video documentation of the performance. Start- ing from the dunes of Alberoni beach in the Venetian Lido, the video follows a strange figure kneeled by the waves and his slow and obsessive gesture. With his hands in the sand, he seems at first to be writing, then drawing: the closer the camera gets, the less his actions seem to make sense. Is he trying to communicate something? His graphisms are lost, erased by the sea water, and by the end, nothing seems to remain of his ghostly presence.
Il mostro non ha lingua is a reflection on drawing’s vague and phantasmagoric nature, and the power if offers in renegotiating our understanding of the word.
Watch it here
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* THAT WHICH IS NEVER SEEN FROM THE EARTH (2023)
* IL MOSTRO NON HA LINGUA (2022)