Illusion cities
carving on cold cutting glass
Size: variable
*works in progress for the future exhibition "Illusion Cities" in 2025 at Gallery N51 in Milan
Some notes and ideas about the exhibition
Scene:
In the centre of the wall of the main gallery is a screening of the video work The Childhood Box: a walk through a blurred vision of the same city after more than ten years in a digital simulation streetview, searching the objectif , with a reading in the background of a diary entry from more than ten years ago.
In the centre of the main gallery hall, 9 or 10 islands made of glass are suspended, representing visions of the cities, each of which emerges as layers of images (stipple/relief), including: self-portraits, city traffic and ground markings, snippets of diary entries in the local language, fragments of the body (from the work:ever), mementos, one sentence of information/points of coordinates (artwork: Crowd °), the square man figure