Lettura interrotta di un'onda

And Polo said: ‘Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.’» «’Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,’ Polo said. ‘Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.’»  Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972

“… In other words, you cannot observe a wave without bearing in mind the complex features that concur in shaping it and the
other, equally complex ones that the wave itself originates.” Italo Calvino, Palomar, Reading a wave, 1983

Filmed during the lockdown to be later screened as an intrusion into an advertising video wall, on the Hybrid Tower of Mestre (see attached additional video documentation), on one side Mestre and Marghera, the suburbs and the industries, on the other Venice. I understood the incursion as a hallucinatory portal that allows in the viewer's imagination, but also a connection between two faces of the metropolitan city.
The connection remains very short and intermittent, it seems to collapse between the advertisements. The fleeting destiny of Venice is very uncertain and ungraspable. This city has always had its own rhythm, based on water-time, a wave architecture, which I tried to capture during the pandemic, in collaboration with the musician Nicola Busetto, who created a minimal soundscape of waves with modular synthesizers.