Where my voice ends

installation

recycled plastic, motors, batteries



2023

The installation elements are reduced to their essential form. The birds, stripped of feathers and flesh, are represented through thin iron stems, imposing in their complexity and fragility. A central motor generates uninterrupted circular motion, while metal beaks, hardened by human progress, guide the viewer.

Each specimen engages in a hysterical dance, a violent rotation with its beak resting on the floor, gradually wearing it down and leaving dramatic marks in various circumferences. Every mark made by the bird contributes to the construction of a nest, delimiting the last space left to the bird, where it survives and asserts itself with deep pictorial and dynamic determination.

This work reflects on creating boundaries to explain oneself within society and a larger ecosystem. The purpose is to disappear behind the works, dedicating them to the natural sphere, bringing humans and animals to their equal place. Fundamental in the artist’s research is the awareness of the failure of beauty for the future of the species, alongside the belief that the natural world is always subject to constant change and diverse proliferation.

The consequences of the traces we have produced fall into the issue of "remembering" (“ricordare,” from Italian): remembering (ri/cor/dare) means giving back (ri/dare) to the heart (core, cuore). Bringing back to the heart.

Exhibition at YSA, "On Purpose", curatet by Rami Farook (2023)

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