who is looking at
Installation, Philosophy, Political / Social, Fantasy / Visionary, Sacred / Mythological, Various materials, 90x95x90cm
Plastic animals are protagonists of the audio installation 'who is looking at', where sound emerges as a new element.
Sound becomes the common thread that gobbles the viewer in a reflection, almost obsessive, on watching and being watched, on being at the same time passive and active viewer of a work that is revealed only in the moment in which the work is listened and 'followed' by the gaze.
The installation presents five felines who are engaged in a competition of gazes.
The typical fixity of the gaze of the cats is strengthen by the unicity of the relation that is created each time between two of them, but, at the same time, as in a chain effect, creates a virtual space in which they hold precise positions and define physical boundaries.
The sound, as a mantra, underlines the actions of the animals and highlights, with its infinite repetition, an unchangeable state of things fueling a feeling of wait.
The sound describes the action that, in turn, draws a pentacle in which the felines are the key points.
The variety of the symbolic meanings attributed to the pentacle gives an aura of mystery to the work. The viewer is left with a doubt: whether the felines act as checkers in a scheme of war presented as a board game or are the elements of an awkward esoteric configuration.
'the lion who looks at the jaguar who looks at the lioness who looks at the tiger who looks at the cheetah who looks at…'
The audio in loop is recited by a speech synthesizer and repeats the following:
Sound becomes the common thread that gobbles the viewer in a reflection, almost obsessive, on watching and being watched, on being at the same time passive and active viewer of a work that is revealed only in the moment in which the work is listened and 'followed' by the gaze.
The installation presents five felines who are engaged in a competition of gazes.
The typical fixity of the gaze of the cats is strengthen by the unicity of the relation that is created each time between two of them, but, at the same time, as in a chain effect, creates a virtual space in which they hold precise positions and define physical boundaries.
The sound, as a mantra, underlines the actions of the animals and highlights, with its infinite repetition, an unchangeable state of things fueling a feeling of wait.
The sound describes the action that, in turn, draws a pentacle in which the felines are the key points.
The variety of the symbolic meanings attributed to the pentacle gives an aura of mystery to the work. The viewer is left with a doubt: whether the felines act as checkers in a scheme of war presented as a board game or are the elements of an awkward esoteric configuration.
'the lion who looks at the jaguar who looks at the lioness who looks at the tiger who looks at the cheetah who looks at…'
The audio in loop is recited by a speech synthesizer and repeats the following:
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