Chora/exochori

This piece was part of a site-specific installation in Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena 2018. Follow the red thread of the word “Chora”, this group of metallic circles represents the orbits of stars and planets  in the first heliocentric cosmological diagrams from Copernico to Galilei. The whole  installation “Chora Park”  has been proposed as a reflection on the concept of environment and focuses on the microcosm / macrocosm dichotomy. I chose to dwell on the iconological heritage that characterizes a precise historical moment: when two illustrated  texts (the De corporis humani fabrica by Vesalius and the De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Copernicus), both of 1543, inaugurate the modern separation between microcosm and macrocosm and the "deconstruction" of the human body  and the cosmos as well, as a practice of modern  knowledge