In Res Verse, revealing his research around the performativities of mobility, the artist installs the object-synthesis of the beginnings of inter-continental displacements the gallery’s patio. Here, the two sails, in white and orange, are attached to a metal tube embedded in the reinforced concrete. Nonoperational, as if one were the negative for the other, they aim for the sea that exists in this city. In front of the sails, as if we were (aren’t we?) upwind – sailing against the wind – we can ask ourselves: how do we dance with the breeze and the color of the façade of this brutalist architecture framing the installation?
The title of the work, Res Verso, reveals a semantic game: a reference to the way of sailing against the wind, technically called “upwind”, whose 45-degree angle prevents uncontrolled drifting; the function of sharing the wind and, thus, the movement of the boat by the two sails, as if one were the negative of the other; and, finally, a reference to the Latin expression “res public”. Res verso, here, as the verse in public affairs – slightly metaphorical about our current state of affairs.
In Res Verse, revealing his research around the performativities of mobility, the artist installs the object-synthesis of the beginnings of inter-continental displacements the gallery’s patio. Here, the two sails, in white and orange, are attached to a metal tube embedded in the reinforced concrete. Nonoperational, as if one were the negative for the other, they aim for the sea that exists in this city. In front of the sails, as if we were (aren’t we?) upwind – sailing against the wind – we can ask ourselves: how do we dance with the breeze and the color of the façade of this brutalist architecture framing the installation?
The title of the work, Res Verso, reveals a semantic game: a reference to the way of sailing against the wind, technically called “upwind”, whose 45-degree angle prevents uncontrolled drifting; the function of sharing the wind and, thus, the movement of the boat by the two sails, as if one were the negative of the other; and, finally, a reference to the Latin expression “res public”. Res verso, here, as the verse in public affairs – slightly metaphorical about our current state of affairs.
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