After living for two months on the Infinity Expedition: a sailing ship engaged in an original environmental protection project, with which I sailed from Gibraltar to Gambia, back on land, I decided to tidy up my logbook. From this was born Notes from the Ocean: a project of seven chapters, chronicling seven different aquatic landscapes. Stories of the Last Days is the fourth chapter and emerges from the interweaving of two autobiographical experiences: the viewing of Luca Signorelli’s Orvieto pictorial masterpiece and the lived experience aboard the Infinity Expedition. The aquatic environment off the Senegalese coast, transcribed in the ship’s logbook, recalled to my memory the pictorial complex inspired by the Last Judgment that, since childhood, I saw in the cathedral of my city. The central theme of the project is apocalypse, understood in its etymological meaning of revelation, unveiling. In a society where people’s needs and desires are created at the table and induced from the outside, where information, which distorts reality, is dramatically manipulated, where governments call for peace and at the same time continue to sell weapons; the work intends to return to the truth of the body, of the flesh. The project aims to bring light to the shift in audience perception as a process of awareness and inner listening, of one’s own state and body, in relation to one’s surroundings. To open glimpses into vision. To reveal something at the same time about the world and about one’s own individual gaze.
PARTNERS
Alessandra Cozzi, Prem Sergio Tosi, Camilla Neri, Atacama, Interceptions, CLAPS Circuit and Teatro San Materno