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Homes

(2002) Homes

(glass filaments, salt, dispensing machine, loudspeakers, CD players, amplifiers, spotlights)

sound: Tommaso Del Signore

Presented at the Museo Pecci as part of the exhibition Continuità (2002), Homes appeared to be made up of six snow-clad "nests" set on lumps of salt, shrouded by a thin cobweb of bluish lights. Here every form of life seems to have been suspended, denied, for the nests are uninhabitable, dangerous, bristling with sharp filaments of glass. But in their innermost core, in an effect that is reminiscent of Ovidio's Metamorphoses, is trapped the sound of a single repeated note, bringing an echo of distant life into that icy landscape. A faint scent of grass, released into the air from an electrically operated diffuser, recalls the color of a now lost spring.