It rusts 1

(an unfulfilled desire doesn’t lose its intensity but it rusts)

2015

Site-specific installation: iron and tree

Artistic Residency Case Sparse, Malonno (Bs)

This artwork is placed in Malonno, which had been characterized by strong emigration at the end of XIX century. In such a place people often ask themselves whether to leave or to stay. Not everyone who wants to leave, does it. Not everyone who leaves wants to do that. The instinct for traveling and change is often linked to fear of cutting the roots that keep us linked to our places, daily lives, and identity. I wanted to fix in an image the moment when these two states of mind coexist. Their coexistence is never a balance, but it is a constant oscillation from one chance to the other until a decision is made. Or you don't take it. And then the rust is made. And the boat, instead of splitting the water, gets crossed.