From the latin word incubus (incubate) it means nightmare in italian and in english as well. It has a double meaning as it is divided in two other words "in-cubo". This summarizes the entire project of Simon Troger. It is about cubes formed by some reticular cages made out of wood, which include the "perfect men" made of burned wood. There's a net contrast between the light color of natural wood and the dark color of the burned wood: two different colors that belong to the same material.
The "perfect" man is in his representation stylistically linear and rational, based on the measures of the Polycleitos's Kanon, and is also burnt by his own rationality because of his desire to pursue a high level of absolute perfection which brought him to build his own perfect world that is nothing but a cage. Dystopia or reality? He talks about an ephemeral world where the struggle to the ideal level of perfection has left him unconsciously self-destroyed. A world where "to want" and "to have" are the vertical and horizontal sides of an eternal-growing and insurmountable cage. The obsession is not just a necessary poetic game as true meaning of the project, but also a fundamental of the rational and serial creation of each work, that could be included in one single giant cube where the "perfect" worlds of each person create a bigger and more articulated in-cubo. Again, it is an eternal-growing artwork.
