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Afasia 1
Afasia 1 is the title of an installation
created in June for the Palais de Tokyo
in Paris by Arcangelo Sassolino.
The artist originally from Vicenza
with an engineering background uses
his art to explore the mechanical
behaviour and physical and material
properties of forces in equilibrium.
The Paris installation is explosive:
a machine that runs on compressed
nitrogen launches beer bottles (a
reference to pop culture as well as
the urban environment) against a
wall at a speed of 600 kilometres per
hour. Every day 120 bottles are hurled
at random, totalling 6,000 bottles
in three months. At the end of the
exhibition they will have become a
mountain of broken glass. In the words
of the artist, “I don’t want to create
images but a state of things in tension,
which I try to construct using the
pressure, weight and sound produced
by the friction of masses.” Afasia 1
is the first piece in a new series on
the question of aphasia (the partial
or total loss of the ability to speak)
and the suspension of language.
Elena Sommariva
