Life

Another image created for a course that, sadly, I had not the  chance to finish ... by the way this was the project related to the 'images' section of the course and the context was: making an installation for a museum where an exhibition about the theme of the globalization was going to be held. Here follows the statment introducing and explaining the main characteristics of the work:

" Today is easy to have a 'global dimension': chat, photo, video, news are available on the net, and reaching distant countries is not difficult task ... but ... in my experience ... all of this does not create a proportional better understanding of other countries, in fact it seems to level the differences going toward a global unawareness .

Easy to reach or easy to know about, is different from understanding new people or places.

Thus this work: a common wall and a window representing our lives (that frequently we consider nothing special), and the window looking to the outer world . What we see through the window is shining and dreamy in its difference and distance from our everyday lives, a sort of 'hologram' of famous places where people is optional. But, finding a common language, and trying to understand we can 'touch' the world and bypass the hologram. Doing so we shift the focus from the place to the people and finally to the interaction between them, growing from 'tourism' to knowledge.

So no target for communication into the image, it is our duty to find a way that can work globally.

For this version of the work the single image has to be placed on a wall facing an entrance door. Lighting of the room: ambience dim and two/three spots reproducing the light on the writings and on the holograms.

Note: building this work as a multimedia installation, where a multi screen, touch panel, recreates the space and the holograms, could give the viewer a way to really touch the 'world', bringing on screen, in the section touched, a sequence of local everyday life with its sounds and speeches. Multiple sequences can be active simultaneously creating a mix of languages and activities. "