Pulse

Pulse. 2020
Plastic, wood, turbine, neon light
Palazzo Ducale, torre Grimaldina.
Genova, Italy.
Let me welcome you to ‘Pulse’. This project
consists of a dome shaped plastic membrane
which represents my universe through a miriad
of different size holes as they were stars. This
membrane maintains its shape thanks to a
turbine that creates a vacuum between it and the
walls of the room. During the exhibition a timer
is used to switch the vacuum every few minutes
causing the dome to breathe, culminating with
the dome slowly falling upon the viewers. With
«Pulse» I think I have managed to make this
space lose its stability, whereby its limits cease
to be something rigid and reliable where one can
travel confidently. It is these limits that define the
space, and in this case the represented universe
(my mental space) makes the one who enters lose
all spatial reference, the viewer loses the ability
to know where it begins and where it ends, in fact
it seems much broader than it really is, if we add
to this that the membrane that circumscribes it
breathes, it goes from its fullness in the form of
a dome to slowly fall on the spectators that are
inside. That which seems immovable, eternal, that
which somehow sustains us, loses its integrity
and with it all certainty.