Interno sospeso [2024]
durational performance
Concept and Performance: Federica Dauri
Music Composition: Elisa Batti
The material of the sculpture is made out of flexible metal mesh, giving the flexibility to customise its shape and size to integrate into the surroundings seamlessly. The metal mesh presents a visual and tactile paradox: its rigid structure transforms into an ethereal presence, a suspended cloud defying gravity and time. The metal mesh symbolises a dialogue between the tangible and the intangible, between the material's solidity and the image's evanescence. It pushes beyond limits, inviting exploration of spaces that elude sight but not imagination.
The sculpture, with its sinuous curves and fissures, unfolds like a labyrinth, a space to be explored slowly. Hardness and ethereal light coexist, forming a boundary that not only defines space but transcends it. It serves as a border that both attracts and repels, a subtle barrier distinguishing the visible from the invisible, the known from the unknown. With slow and conscious movement, she explores every corner of this suspended space, delving into her own body on a journey that starts from internal listening to the discovery of external space.
"Interno sospeso" unfolds slowly, without haste, allowing each moment to evolve naturally. There is no precise beginning or defined end, only the constant flow of sound and body merging with the sculpture in an infinite cycle of creation and destruction.
The sound is designed to engage in dialogue with the performance, gradually unfolding through dark tones that evoke tension; this progression then transitions into subtle rhythmic harmonies that emerge and fade, guiding the spectator through a contemplative journey.