_transcribing freedom
In Zusammenarbeit mit :
Vittoria Guglielmi
residency at in:dépendence 24
published in trans magazine 47
ongoing
A THING IS HOLE IN A THING IT IS NOT
Carl Andre
The aphorism by Carl Andre very well depicts the starting point of this journey. He used it to describe the importance of the space between his sculpted works, as he considered it being part of the artwork itself. The imperceptible is characterised by the perceptible.
Our contribution to the In:dépendance residency at Furka pass uses this duality to immortalise what we thought makes the Furka pass special - FREEDOM.
How can we materialise the feeling of being high up in the mountains, the view over a valley or the sentiment given by the landscape? What makes the landscape perceptible and feelable? Maybe not the landscape in itself, but the space surrounding, filling it - the thing it is not.
The valley is as deep as you are high. The perception is the trigger for the feeling of freedom. To consider it in Carl Andre‘s perspective not the landscape is the thing, but its opposite.
The Movement of winds, travelling over territories, roaming freely through the valley and around mountains, perceptible yet invisible. Their direct translation is as close as we can get to grasp the invisible, triggering freedom. Supposedly looking on a map you would trace the paths of millions of particle carried by the wind the result would approximately be the heightmap of the territory itself. In this case the free, the invisible defines the materialised - the landscape.
