Budano Lino Manazza Silvia
Italien
seit vielen Jahren gemeinsame Arbeiten und Projekte Video-Skulptur, Objekte, Installation
«...In diesem Sinn wird Gedächtnis gleichbedeutend mit der Schaffung des Abwesenden und repräsentiert das Andauern dessen, was nicht mehr ist, und konstituiert so ein System von Identität, das sich über das Werden realisiert...»
Installation “La memoria dell’acqua” (“The Memory of Water”)
We all carry a certain memory of water within us – from the moment of our first contact with this primary element in the form of amniotic fluid during the development of our body in utero. Water is the most common element in our organism, taking on a function comparable to connective tissue between various parts of our body.
And water retains this aspect of a trait d’union in the four-part video installation “La memoria dell’acqua” by Silvia Manazza and Lino Budano: a monitor that shows different, brief videos, a sculpture, and a wax casting that represents the upper part of a human head that keeps appearing and rising out of the standing water as if it were a thinking observer, albeit immovable and mute.
A kind of ars reminiscendi develops from this sequence of different elements, mediated through the water, whose creation and mechanisms, in their vast complexity, cannot even be fathomed by the scientists of today.
In the first video, we see the hands of Silvia Manazza that seek to hold the recollections within her memory through writing that, however, emerges only as a dim shadow or an image that cannot even be reproduced;
In the second video, the grid produced by the layers of water create the substrate, where the memories are deposited and where they emerge;
In the third video, the writing that initially appeared in the first video is now clearer, although the water still blurs its contours;
In the fourth video, half a head made of wax appears, letting the observer know that a mnemonic process is going on. Here, we are moving from an undefined and distant memory within the sub-conscious to its emergence in the conscious ego – from its first appearance in the real dimension through to the actual processing that sometimes lightly touches the dimension of dreams, however, without enabling the observer to fully comprehend the exact dynamics of this mysterious process.
Memory truly is what witnesses the unique character of the human being – the perception of nothingness and the capability of creating that unique and paradoxical structure across this chasm that is thought.
And so, memory becomes synonymous with the creation of that which is absent and represents the continuum of what no longer exists, thus creating a system of identity that actualizes itself through the process of becoming.
Veronica Pirola, Curator Museo Mantua et Museo Pavia, Italy
