Double solo show with Anna Franceschini, curated by Paola Tognon with Paola Vischetti, at the Canoniere di San Giacomo.
This project is impossible to document visually, since the cavernous spaces under the fortified walls of the old city were pitch dark. Visitors explored a few at a time, with flashlights. The spaces had lots of graffiti on the walls and had evidently been used as a kind of secret hide-out by teenagers in the past. There are three spaces in an ascending path: a large space with stucco walls, that reverberates, steps leading to a door that leads to a smaller space with stone walls and deader acoustics, which ends in a hole in the wall through which you can glimpse yet another space, inaccessible. In the initial large space I put boards, terracotta construction rubble and mats of reeds, materials that formed a path and made noise underfoot. We built a makeshift lounge out of objects found in the trash, a table, chairs, drawers, trunks. Along the steps four small portable CD players reproduced an ever-changing composition of vocal sounds (no words) made by kids. Anna’s two videos formed luminous thresholds through which to pass on the way to the top. At the top, through the big hole in the wall, you could see a lightbox with a sunrise or sunset color blur, a shot taken through a train window of countryside near Bergamo, accompanied by spatialized and almost loud sounds, wind, rumblings, crows, a burning fuse.
Everything was tied together by a story about a childhood experience in a similar subterranean clubhouse.
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