HYDRAULIC MYTHOLOGIES | Site-Specific Installations/ Sculptures (2025)

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Presented in occasion of BRINT, a duo show with LinkHg 9.09.2025-26.10.2025 at Villa Angaran San Giuseppe, Bassano del Grappa. Curated by Elephant's Events

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​Born from a practice of thinking-in-space, the sculptures/installations of HYDRAULIC MYTHOLOGIES emerge through a slow, almost ritual attunement with the materialities of the site. They bear witness to past and present struggles: the remains of trees broken by increasingly aggressive weather events — themselves consequences of climate change — remind us how human impact, even when perceptible only in the longue durée, inscribes itself in the very materiality of the environments we inhabit daily, irreversibly altering them.

The insertion of the metal sheets is a negotiation with the cracks already there, with the scars left by time and by the retreat of water. Where once the trunk was a single living body — sustained by the very water that, in a storm, became its threat — now the fissures are the silent trace of that absence, of a life that no longer flows. The act seeks to open a new conversation with the wound, so that these forms may continue to testify to the events they endured, and thus preserve the meaning of their having been.

It is a process that unsettles the role of the hand that intervenes, the measure of the gesture, and the relationship between myself, as a human, and the surrounding nature. An exercise in listening and adaptation, where the work takes shape by revealing the continuum of superimpositions that have marked — and still mark — the context that receives it. It underlines how human domination over nature is at times evident, sometimes invisible, yet often endemic — and therefore all the more in need of being unmasked.​

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The installations emerge from a process of listening and relating to space, in a slow, almost ritual attunement with its materials and with the wounds left by the river and by time. Broken trunks and cracks bear witness to the effects of climate change, while the insertion of metal sheets reopens a conversation with these absences, transforming them into living memory. The process highlights the fragile and contradictory relationship between humans and nature, revealing both visible and invisible traces of human dominance over river environments and bodies of water in general.
 

​HYDRAULIC MYTHOLOGIES 1 230x160x140h cm

​HYDRAULIC MYTHOLOGIES 2 175x110x117h cm

​HYDRAULIC MYTHOLOGIES 3 290x150x150h + 43x126cm

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Reclaimed wood, reclaimed metal sheets, synthetic gold leaf

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