Introduction
Territories of the Last Song is an immersive pictorial installation conceived as an inhabitable architecture where painting, light, body and shadow cease to exist as separate elements and become a single spatial experience.
The project explores the possibility of shifting painting away from the traditional plane toward a perceptual and bodily situation. The work no longer functions as a frontal surface observed from a distance, but as a territory that can be traversed and inhabited.
The project
The installation takes the form of a large-scale conical structure built from bamboo canes and translucent textile membranes intervened pictorially.
Visitors can enter the structure and become an active part of the work.
From the outside, bodies appear as diffuse presences projected onto the translucent skin of the installation. Shadows emerge and fade slowly, accompanied by an internal luminous breathing.
Painting no longer occupies a fixed place and begins to exist as:
- atmosphere
- membrane
- perceptual filter
- inhabitable territory
Expanded painting
The work arises from research centered on the relationship between:
- light
- matter
- memory
- presence
- disappearance of the image
Painting ceases to function as a stable representation and becomes a variable phenomenon that changes with:
- light
- the viewer's position
- the movement of the body
- time
The image never remains still.
Architecture and body
The structure proposes an ephemeral architecture built from light, tensioned materials:
- bamboo canes
- translucent textile membranes
- dimmable LED lighting
- pigments and glazes
Its monumentality does not arise from material weight but from the relationship between:
- emptiness
- transparency
- light
- shadow
- human presence
The installation works simultaneously as shelter, membrane and space of passage.
Experience
The viewer does not observe a finished image. They activate it.
Each body modifies the work. Each movement generates new shadows. Each presence leaves a momentary trace that appears and fades slowly.
The installation proposes an experience of deceleration and perceptual suspension within the continuous flow of contemporary circulation.
Current status
Project in development.
The research currently includes:
- inhabitable physical models
- spatial studies
- lighting tests
- experimentation with pictorial membranes
- photographic and audiovisual documentation