I feel my throat tightening at the sight of the landscape’s beauty.
In Borca di Cadore, amongst gorgeous mountains, stands the Eni Village, an abandoned place, a great, empty architecture.
During one of the visits to the Colonia (Eng.: Summer Camp Building), I’d seen some iron inside a recycling bin, a metallic net still in good conditions; it had only been pressed down to diminish its volume.
A few weeks later, I came back, happy to be able to recover those nets, I’ve spread them down and rolled them back up, then, wandering through the corridors and floors of the building, I’ve found a small private room, I’ve cleaned it up and I’ve deposited the reels there.
Now, there are some shapes made of net, by that place, small “doilies” which develop slightly in height, and look like small constructions. Randomly laid down on the white floor, they contrast the geometric web created by the spaces between the tiles. A layout of a floor, but also an astral field, made out of empty, abandoned, “unhabited” ( i.e. “disabitate”) houses which, similarly to the example of our territory, get scattered and are almost invisible to the eye.
The rotation is the principal movement of this action, in what we do, in what we un-do, re-do, and in the production of circular shapes. I was looking for a small and luminous space, I found this room, which used to be the private quarters of one of the nuns living in the Colonia. The spiritual life here doesn’t get separated from the positive, creative imagination which generates shapes, the caring for things as well, however difficult to see it might be, can transform and give new life to matter.
In this installation I’m talking about the dream and desire of regenerating the small and great memories of architecture.
This project will be continued in Spring.
Disabitate
work in progress installation, metallic net, 2014-2015
Colonia, Nuns’ quarters.
Photo: Marta Allegri, Giacomo De Donà
