Exhibitions, Italy, Reggio Emilia, Reggio nell'Emilia, 13 April 2019
The topic - as well as the titles –are two.
An analysis of the human behavior in relation to the life/death relationship and a reflection about the losses death forces us to experience together with the difficulty of leaving behind everything we’ve built throughout life, including personal relationships.
“Si sta come d'autunno sugli alberi le foglie”. “Ed è subito sera”. Maybe Ungaretti and Quasimodo were right about life. Or maybe not. Let’s suppose that life is merely an awakening form nothing that catapults us in a world that we don’t know where we worry, love, suffer and rejoice. We find that special person we want to share our journey with, while trying to nourishing the relationship with our family. We seek true friendships while keeping in contact with all the people we meet in the way. Then everything ends, at an age and a time we don’t know, without any sense or logic behind it. What would the sense of life be, then?
Somebody may think that autumn does make no sense for the leaves too. It just comes. This vision is quite inescapable and permanent. Its brutality is fascinating and reassuring, almost convenient in a way. It does not imply any research leaving no room for doubt. It is based on a solid method that takes into account what we see, what we know and what we have experienced. It is rationality in its purest form.
And all of this is true. However, this model works only if we accept that there is nothing to understand. If we passively go through everything that life presents us with.
Unhappiness, suffering, loneliness and death.
There is someone ready to experience all of that without understanding it?
Understanding begins with the experience, the observation, the awareness and a change in the way we perceive reality – therefore in our thoughts and actions.
Experience is a powerful instrument to change how we see ourselves and other people.
It is for that reason that, since 2013, many Korean Companies have compelled their employees to celebrate their funeral, putting them into coffins in order for them to develop a new perspective about life and be more driven.
The topic and practice of my project do not want to be disturbing or shocking in any way: death is part of life and that’s a fact.
Stating the reality of things has the aim of making us more aware, without involving fear, discomfort, refusal, or wanting to turn death into a show.
The form that I’ve chosen is the most effective in order to undergo an experience that we will all go through sooner or later (better later than sooner), which I hope it’s going to stimulate a reflection - with some new elements - about the bond that human beings have with life and with what is still a taboo: death.
An analysis of the human behavior in relation to the life/death relationship and a reflection about the losses death forces us to experience together with the difficulty of leaving behind everything we’ve built throughout life, including personal relationships.
“Si sta come d'autunno sugli alberi le foglie”. “Ed è subito sera”. Maybe Ungaretti and Quasimodo were right about life. Or maybe not. Let’s suppose that life is merely an awakening form nothing that catapults us in a world that we don’t know where we worry, love, suffer and rejoice. We find that special person we want to share our journey with, while trying to nourishing the relationship with our family. We seek true friendships while keeping in contact with all the people we meet in the way. Then everything ends, at an age and a time we don’t know, without any sense or logic behind it. What would the sense of life be, then?
Somebody may think that autumn does make no sense for the leaves too. It just comes. This vision is quite inescapable and permanent. Its brutality is fascinating and reassuring, almost convenient in a way. It does not imply any research leaving no room for doubt. It is based on a solid method that takes into account what we see, what we know and what we have experienced. It is rationality in its purest form.
And all of this is true. However, this model works only if we accept that there is nothing to understand. If we passively go through everything that life presents us with.
Unhappiness, suffering, loneliness and death.
There is someone ready to experience all of that without understanding it?
Understanding begins with the experience, the observation, the awareness and a change in the way we perceive reality – therefore in our thoughts and actions.
Experience is a powerful instrument to change how we see ourselves and other people.
It is for that reason that, since 2013, many Korean Companies have compelled their employees to celebrate their funeral, putting them into coffins in order for them to develop a new perspective about life and be more driven.
The topic and practice of my project do not want to be disturbing or shocking in any way: death is part of life and that’s a fact.
Stating the reality of things has the aim of making us more aware, without involving fear, discomfort, refusal, or wanting to turn death into a show.
The form that I’ve chosen is the most effective in order to undergo an experience that we will all go through sooner or later (better later than sooner), which I hope it’s going to stimulate a reflection - with some new elements - about the bond that human beings have with life and with what is still a taboo: death.
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