The artwork is an act of connection with the ancestral energies of the landscape —a landscape that in its earliest forms of interaction with the human being was a sacred place.

 

In the middle of the gorge, the Vela stream, water—source of life— flows between the prehistoric burials and the skulls once deposited in the cavities of the rock. Life flowing into death; death, a transforming and generating force of the new. In this view, the sacredness of death is closely related to the sacredness of life, and honoring one necessarily means honoring its opposite.

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In this dialogue between the coexistence of two opposing and complementary forces, the ancient soul of this place is revealed: the making of the work is a spiritual act aiming to honor the original chthonic forces that sustain the contemporary landscape.

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The audio track is made in collaboration with Alessia Orsa and Andrea Garofalo. The installation is made with the technical support of Sergio Gadda.