Risata Amara// Bitterly Laugh is a composition of two sculptures representing two different type of containers (a bottle and a can).
If one day you would wake up in another body, shaped as a bottle, what would you do? The container that you used to have, your body, is now something completely different; it is now the representation of the di- scards of the anthropocene world. Because of the shape, your new body is not functional anymore, you feel expanded and contracted at the same time. If you would look at yourself in the mirror, you would see a crumpled bottle ready to be thrown in the recycling bin. As if, once finished drinking the contents of it, you have crushed it, broke it, decomposed it and from it the residue that you had not yet managed to drink, leaks.
Since the ancient Greece, we created containers based on what there would be inside; in our modern world, cans and bottles have a huge impact in our everyday life; they accompany us until we discard them.
Sometimes contents depend on the container: if a container is small or big, our perception changes based on how much it fits inside; this principle is the same when talking about our everyday life, is it affecting us or are we affecting it?
Now, two huge containers itself are becoming contents of another container, the room; it’s always a matter of perception and how we do perceive the content and the container. The comprehension of the con- tainer and its content might change depending on the surrounding, cultural and individual factors; the same object might have a different meaning in different places with different contexts even though it’s composed by the same components. We could ask ourselves whether the content within a container has its own meaning or if it’s the interaction between container, context and the individual that defines its significance.
