6. Tangle of memory - Apart

The work stems from the idea of reconstructing a cartography of memory: an emotional map composed of traces and connections, intended to narrate what remains through fragments and evocation. In the exhibited project, the concept of the "glimpsed" prevails, where the misty landscape on both sides represents a space of suspension where memories settle and resurface. The work develops as a sensitive device that reactivates perceptions, suspends time, and generates emotional rhythms, finding a sonic extension in Apart, a composition for soprano, piano, tuba, and live electronics. Based on the dialogue of acoustic instruments with chords and harmonies presented by electronic ones, the music evokes an imaginary space, distant yet near, almost absurd, where sound, darkness, and silence coexist and simultaneously collide.

In this scenario, the central canvas acts as an inner layer of skin, where transmission veins form a network that generates connections between the tangles of memory. The language of the installation is visual poetry, and the materials used evoke lightness, stratification, and transparency; from this emerges the reference to the skin, understood as a living, permeable surface capable of welcoming traces and inscriptions. Plastic sheets, rice paper, and tracing paper serve as sensitive membranes, producing transparencies and contrasts that allow one to glimpse what emerges in bursts of light, while the piano initially presents itself as a disturbing element with brief interventions that gradually become more consistent and at the same time shatter. This creates moments characterized by different density and expressiveness resulting from the varying relationship with other instruments, just as memory manifests as a residual glow, an echo that passes through the layers and takes shape as it surfaces on the planes of the work.

The installation establishes a relationship between the gaze and the body of the spectator, inviting them to grasp what surfaces in the folds of time. Another significant element is the lowland landscape: a suspended territory where words and signs settle. It is transcribed and painted on light, almost immaterial surfaces, supported by frames that allow them to exist. The surface thus becomes a stratified emotional map, in which signs and words emerge as fragments of memory. The poetic reference is L'intravisto by Elisa Biagini, which investigates the thresholds and slits of the gaze: the verse "The memory of where is a residual glow of the brain" enters into dialogue with the histological plates of Camillo Golgi, a reference that suggested the tangle of memory as a neural network, an emotional epidermis in continuous emergence.