Site-specific installation at area IFIM, Parco del Torre (UD), gravel, metal and solar power, 2022
The IFIM area is an entity in transition: from gravel quarry to renewable energy production site, from private industrial space to public park, from private capital generator to an asset available to the community.
The narrative build up from a metal hopper still embedded under the fill hill, and becoms the element that conveys the story of the territory, the rediscovered trace that triggers reflection. Memory and witness of an industrial past marked by defined modes of action and exploitation of resources, it forms the basis of an act of re-evocation. The metal cylinder containing gravel from the Torre river is activated in its rotation by solar energy and it coincides with the ancient point of fall. The installation brings back to life the sound of a past ordinariness and restores in one movement the whole genesis of the place’s identity.
Working as an act of restorative justice, the intervention has an evocative character, functional to accompanying the public into contemplation and observation of the context in all its complexity; it is intended to re-signify the presence of the hopper, from an industrial archaeology element to an object capable of starting new and good practices.
The narrative build up from a metal hopper still embedded under the fill hill, and becoms the element that conveys the story of the territory, the rediscovered trace that triggers reflection. Memory and witness of an industrial past marked by defined modes of action and exploitation of resources, it forms the basis of an act of re-evocation. The metal cylinder containing gravel from the Torre river is activated in its rotation by solar energy and it coincides with the ancient point of fall. The installation brings back to life the sound of a past ordinariness and restores in one movement the whole genesis of the place’s identity.
Working as an act of restorative justice, the intervention has an evocative character, functional to accompanying the public into contemplation and observation of the context in all its complexity; it is intended to re-signify the presence of the hopper, from an industrial archaeology element to an object capable of starting new and good practices.
