ALCOVA PALUDE
Alcova Palude is a sound installation I presented at Aplusa gallery in Venice, IT, for the exhibition “Hôtel Dieu”, in 2023.
In this work, I explore the idea of a paradoxical place meant to provide ease. I envisioned a bed that is actually a pond: indeed, very uncomfortable for the body as well as for the mind. This vision comes across as disturbing. The feeble light creates an atmosphere of intimacy and invites our gaze to explore the mattress, painted with details of water springs, greenery, and small insects. As a counterpart, music spreads from a radio: its old design and wrecked shapes enhance the uncanny nature of thensounds it broadcasts, as if they resonate with the shiny brushstrokes and the shady hues of the painted surfaces.
I chose the sharpness and harshness of synthetic sounds produced with crafted oscillators to represent the landscape of a pond as a vision. Instead of working, for example, with field recordings, I decided to shape sounds through modular synthesis with the aim
of producing a distorted image of reality. This is a technique I often use in painting as a way to build a more powerful and dreamlike relationship with everyday observations.
Furthermore, these sounds resemble reality and produce an auditory equivalent of a painted image.
Here a link to the video documentation
Here a link to the sound track.
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In this work, I explore the idea of a paradoxical place meant to provide ease. I envisioned a bed that is actually a pond: indeed, very uncomfortable for the body as well as for the mind. This vision comes across as disturbing. The feeble light creates an atmosphere of intimacy and invites our gaze to explore the mattress, painted with details of water springs, greenery, and small insects. As a counterpart, music spreads from a radio: its old design and wrecked shapes enhance the uncanny nature of thensounds it broadcasts, as if they resonate with the shiny brushstrokes and the shady hues of the painted surfaces.
I chose the sharpness and harshness of synthetic sounds produced with crafted oscillators to represent the landscape of a pond as a vision. Instead of working, for example, with field recordings, I decided to shape sounds through modular synthesis with the aim
of producing a distorted image of reality. This is a technique I often use in painting as a way to build a more powerful and dreamlike relationship with everyday observations.
Furthermore, these sounds resemble reality and produce an auditory equivalent of a painted image.
Here a link to the video documentation
Here a link to the sound track.
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