Limbo, 2006
Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy
Installation (wood, fabric) ambient dimensions
video projection, (colour, sound, 7:07), still lives (3 c-prints, 50 x 70 cm), contours (drawings + album, 36 x 48 cm)
Following Ama, Limbo is the second act of The World of Interiors, a video trilogy focused on the house as the incubator of human relations and desires. A textile children house blown out of proportion hides the video in order to reveal it. According to anthropology, limbo is the moment of initiation when an individual is detached from everyday life and overcomes a ritually encoded set of trials to change his/her status in society. Set as a scientific experiment, the video focuses on the family as the first place for entertaining relations and experiencing feelings. The focus is on the gestures of people related by blood ties and portrays the ambivalence of bonding as a source of both strength and impediment. The soundtrack is made of the sound of the blood of the artist.