Alephs

Alephs (still) – Single-channel / Video-Essay installation – 10’ 32’’ (2020)

Alephs – Single-channel / Video-Essay installation – 10’ 32’’ (2020)

“The Aleph? Yes, the only place on earth where all places are, seen from every angle, each standing clear, without any confusion or blending. I kept discovery to myself and went back every chance I got…Truth cannot penetrate a closed mind. If all places in the universe are in the Aleph, then all stars, all lamps, all sources of light are in it too. I saw my empty bedroom, I saw in a closet in Alkmaar a terrestrial globe between to mirrors that multiplied endlessly;…I saw the coupling of love and the modification of death; I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon, the unimaginable universe.” From Jorge Louis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories.

An Aleph in mathematics indicates a set of numbers used to represent infinite sets’ cardinality (or size). Infinite sets can have different cardinalities. The Aleph expresses the extreme limit of the number line, applied to a function of sequence that diverges to infinity or increases without bound. Now, try to imagine an uncultivated but living space of vegetation, an abandoned area of approximately fifty square meters between one street and another of your city. Suppose that this space really exists, but nobody talks about it because nobody sees it, nobody can get there, nobody knows it. A small oasis/waste piece of land hidden between one building and another without any access or consideration. Imagine that by chance, you can’t see it from your window, but it still exists. Now, imagine to build an imaginative bridge that allows you to get there. It is a bit like waiting time, a time intensely real, but that has no interpersonal declination. This time, discovered this space: an area that, like waiting, exists and does not exist, a length of negation to explore and, above all, to re-appropriate, inhabit.

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Alephs (stills sequence) – Single-channel / Video-Essay installation – 10’ 32’’ (2020)

ALEPHS (Installed view) – WANDERLUST BIENNAL 2021, MoCA Skopje – Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje(MKD)

Alephs – Framed satellite screenshots detail 01 – Inkjet print on cotton paper 300gr, 130×60 cm (2020)

Alephs (Satellite screenshots details 02/03) – Satellite Google street-view captures, Via Montaldo, Genoa (IT) (2020)