Lightweight Spatial Installation
Villa Saroli, Lugano
2024
Developed for the Biennale Svizzera del Territorio open call, the installation explored states of suspension, uncertainty and imagined futures through the repeated form of a bow and arrow dispersed throughout the gardens of Villa Saroli.
Caught in the moment just before release, the installation prolongs a condition of tension and indecision, inviting viewers to project their own trajectories, possibilities and imagined outcomes onto the surrounding landscape.
Open call—
Biennale Svizzera del Territorio
Location —
Villa Saroli
Lugano, Switzerland
The figuration of possible.
(not as opposite of impossible
nor as related to probable
nor as subordinated to likely)
the possible is only
a physical “caustic” [vitrio type]
burning up all aesthetics or callistics
From The Writings of Marcel Duchamp, p. 73.
Blood Orange
It looks so dark the end of the world may be near.
I believe it’s going to rain.
The birds in the park are silent.
Nothing is what it seems to be,
Nor are we.
There’s a tree on our street so big
We can all hide in its leaves.
We won’t need any clothes either.
I feel as old as a cockroach, you said.
In my head, I’m a passenger on a ghost ship.
Not even a sigh outdoors now.
If a child was left on our doorstep,
It must be asleep.
Everything is teetering on the edge of everything
With a polite smile.
It’s because there are things in this world
That just can’t be helped, you said.
Right then, I heard the blood orange
Roll off the table with a thud
And lie cracked open on the floor.
Charles Simic