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GOOD BYE MOTHER
Goodbye Mother is the poetic and performative continuation of the work started with Air Shapes, this, as already said, is the seed for what I can will start to consider and think as “Resilience actions” (see here), it is a work deeply born during my residence in Malta (2014-2019).
I started to investigate what is my condition as a man and migrant artist was and the diaspora and the disorientation that derives from it, was the opportunity to move my digital performances from contexts completely inserted in nature to urban contexts. A sort of search for the other, not like other outside of my self but part of my being, my thought and my actions that have increasingly become rooted in social and political discourses, understood the latter, in the Greek meaning of its signifier, “polis ”, what is inherent in the city.
Studio per Good Bye Mother, azioni in vari luoghi di Malta, 2015
Eternal Present (2017) Digital Video Performance, 1'11 ", single channel, shaken in Malta in Saint Thomas Bay (14102016).
My "actions" are a creative act and an attempt to inform the collective consciousness that a different way of living, feeling life is possible ...
I am motionless letting the handkerchief that I hold up swing freely taking on the shapes that the air gives it, I am there in that dimension, space and time, breath, my heart marks time ... I am simply there in that exact moment of the temporal segment and spatial, I let everything that has to happen happen, I don't want anything else ...
I try to affirm my existence in front of a sea the Mediterranean, that of Malta, which has much to tell us about its past and its becoming, and witness of arduous ancient and contemporary navigations, the same waves that break on the cliff seem to be a breath ... a movement oscillating between what can be and what has been ...
Then I decide to extract a sample of my action and dilate it over time, slowing it down, so that invisible instants can become visible ...
But in the end what is the moving image if not a series of infinite snapshots, of infinite instants frozen in the present, which flow unceasingly into each other. The video image is therefore itself in an eternal present flowing from a past to a future passing from the present ... what happens if it is seen in the opposite flow from a future passing from the present going to the past?
And what happens if these two timelines are viewed simultaneously and digitally superimposed?
Perhaps a hypothesis of "Eternal Present"
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