The photographic enlargements "Eternal City"(1998) and "Street with maps" (1997), share the assemblage and the digital elaboration of some elements taken from reality, belonging to different moments reunited in the same place.
In the first one, the girls wearing a uniform in a shopping centre, being in this new context, become outer elements, part of a virtual vision where far off elements share the same space. And this new different joint times in a unique space would take back the work in the sphere of myth, synonym of eternity.
Instead "Street with maps" represents a dark tunnel with its walls enlightened by maps: a representation that reminds of the maps room of the renaissance homes, a place which becomes the guide of the world, but that in reality does not exist. The maps placed along the corridor don’t actually lead to any place, don’t have any function and are opposed to sculptures that, emulating the old sculpture, are a further reference to the mythology of the past.
Until 1 March 2002
Eternal City
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