Oikos

Oikos. 2021
Bamboo, plaster.
5 x 1 meters
Apricale, Italy
This work is a collective sculpture built in the
garden of the castle of Apricale that I called
«Oikos» (house in ancient Greek), a circular
structure of 5 metres diameter made of
bamboo that keeps its shape thanks to the hand
impressions of the inhabitants of Apricale. Each
person has fixed different joints of the bamboo
structure by holding the ends with a bit of plaster
in their hand until the plaster dries, leaving the
handprint. Each imprint then symbolises the
will to support others, to create community, but
also symbolises the different connections that
like a net bind us to each other. The structure
was painstakingly raised with the help of some
inhabitants to the position it occupies today,
hanging from what is left of a palm tree. Raising it
physically was important to me as a collective will
of a «utopia» as an engine for the future, which is
very necessary in these times.
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