untitled (tolerance)

Diversity has never been
such a terrible blame
as it’s being in these days of tolerance
Pierpaolo Pasolini

This installation has a bare and simple shape that recalls industrial machineries. It consists of three aluminium pulleys putted on top of an iron table that make turn a paper blade. A small electric motor controls the movement of a mechanical device that supports a flower and drives it against the blade. Thereby the flower is led to a sure end and it’s inexorably decapitated.
The public is invited to interact with the work, since the installation only comes alive with a voluntary action of the observer, that is to say by inserting the flower in the mechanical device. In that way the motor and the blade start up and, for few seconds, their uncanny noise pervades the environment.
The tolerance is a purely nominal concept, thus a “real” tolerance would be a contradiction: we tolerate what we identify as different from us, but not acceptable. “I tolerate you as long as you turn into me”, whereas “I accept you as you are”.