“Photosynthesis” (“Aleph-null”) is an infinite loopable audiovisual work that attempts to bring into tension three poles of contemporaneity: the human,... Read More
“Photosynthesis” (“Aleph-null”) is an infinite loopable audiovisual work that attempts to bring into tension three poles of contemporaneity: the human, the natural, and the mechanical. The work alternates between two scenes marked by an obsessive rhythm, a mechanical breath of time: on one side, a body immersed in a bathtub writhes in a gesture of survival; on the other, a primordial bio-mechanical organism rotates like an Unmoved Mover, oscillating between being a machine and a living creature.
The title refers to Borges and his concept of Aleph: a point, an original void, in which infinity is gathered. In this sense, the rotating being is configured as a mysterious and inaccessible truth, a sort of cosmic breath on which the vital rhythm of man depends. This dual dependence is highlighted by the alternation of movements: human life is subordinate to the creature's breath, but at the same time, humans, with their destructive actions (symbolically represented by the waste of water in the tank in which the human is immersed), threaten the fragile balance that sustains them.
The graphic tracings and overlays evoke patterns of analysis, attempts at algorithmic deciphering of living beings, and technological mediation in the relationship between man and nature.The entire work is structured as an audiovisual liturgy, with regular sound and cyclical repetition of images aimed at evoking a ritualistic and contemplative dimension in the viewer. “Photosynthesis” is an act of meditation and worship, an exercise in visual and mental breathing; a work that questions the mystery of existence and a fundamental paradox: that of a life that depends on a breath greater than itself but at the same time consumes it, thus threatening the existence of both.
