Pulse (Spanda)

Pulse (Spanda). 2022
Plastic, Turbins.
5 x 8 meters.
The word Spanda, which from Sanskrit alludes
to the primordial pulsation or creative vibration
throughout the universe, serves to frame the work
that will be installed at the DAC Contemporary
Art, where the viewer is faced with a large oval
(diaphragm) that it breathes and moves as if it
were a wave. Space is intrinsically connected
to time and the subject transits in the interval
between the two limits of breath.
This membrane (matrix) could be considered
as a threshold that changes continuously from
its concave shape, which invites the visitor to
scrutinize the empty space, to the convex shape,
which slowly invades the room forcing the
spectators to retreat.
I like to underline the apparent duality between
presence and emptiness, internal and external,
welcome and thrust, feminine and masculine;
apparent because it is the same membrane that,
thanks to the atmospheric pressure differences,
passes from one side of the room to the other.
Most of the time the viewer remains in the
territory between inhalation and exhalation, where
everything is possible; the membrane becomes
pure plastic possibility, like the waves, all similar
but none alike.
Thus Pulse (Spanda) responds to the intuition that
we are no longer the only ones to pass through
immobile and passive space, but that space also
moves around us.
Nothing stands still, everything pulsates.
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