Bound.
Bound addresses the theme of isolation and the intrinsic value that we give to the people that we love. A human body, that of my best friend, is in a state halfway through levitating and drowning in a swelling mass of black substance. It stands to represent how prolonged forced isolation and distance can start to erase the bond that keeps people linked to each other and their shared experiences.
Its conception was aimed, along with Matter, at revealing the hidden, and incorporated a reflection on the condition of the Covid-19 lockdown, when everyone was forced to stay locked up at home, possibly in a foreign country, cut off from all loved ones. A crushing feeling that extends its scope to situations like memory loss, degenerative diseases and, perhaps most relatable of all, depression.
Fragments of the person that comes to mind the most in times of isolation (my best friend Alessandro) were cast.
The memory is that of when Ale fell completely in love with Berlin on a trip with friends: Gregorio, who collaborated with me on this project, took this photo.
The photo was analougue-printed onto the cast.
The dark, incessant, dense, growing mass of isolation (literal or figurative) swallows the cast and the memory to which it is forever bound.
A collaboration with Gregorio Migliaccio.
This is an ongoing project.