Mani-e

My artistic journey has approached the world of kinetic art and mechanics at the end of 2012, when I produced a work about psychosis and nervous tics: Mani-e. My initial idea was to realise the gesture mania, psychomotor disorders, which an individual subject who suffers of neurosis lives in his daily life. In my research I decided to focus on some particular psychomotor disturb called stereotypies: in which the subject manifests persistent and monotonous repetitions of simple or articulated movements, or even sentences without any real meaning. The tendency to maintain the same attitude or repeat several times a given act is the personal solution these subjects have found, intent on searching for something to give relief to his restlessness. These so-called tics may well represent the particular obsessional rituals which over time become fully automated and mechanical.
Starting from these premises, I realized that it was difficult to express the tension and emotions of a person subject to these stereotypies through something fixed and static as my previous work and, so to speak summary of the classical concept of sculpture. I started to think about a job that, with the introduction of a monotone and continuous movement, was able to express the right feeling of discomfort and obsession that was my intention to express; if not then what a better representation than a hand gestures neurotic? So I made a limb "automata" with a mechanism inspired by the chimes, intent on drumming his fingers.
The thing that I would like to express in this work is not exactly a replicate of the movement that can make a human hand, but the noise that comes from the incessant ticking of the fingers of wood, forced into an automated motion, which mark the time expressing a state of anxiety, child of our time.