Tempo Perso

TEMPO PERSO

T.S. Eliot wrote that “only through time is time conquered”.
Tempo Perso, shaped as an intervention in the space of the Forum Buonaparte 68 of the Galeria Tempesta, is configured precisely as an attempt to reconquer the present after acknowledging the existence of a timeless time in contemporaneity, that, unable to leave itself, cannot account for the past.

The work, conceived specifically for the gallery space, is an articulation of a “lost time”, a time which cannot be capitalized, which is relational and essentially historical. It is a time for leisure and contemplation, as well as reconsideration and re-evaluation of the past. This time, which is full, saturated, capable of unfolding and accounting for the palimpsest of eras, eventualities and events that the space holds, appears in the room in the form of a net. This structure informs a monumental installation that, designed with light materials, is formally opposed to the features that distinguish traditional monuments. These, often built with heavy materials and erected to commemorate an exceptional event, tend towards concreteness and a strong presence. The installation, whose reflections and shadows create an ethereal atmosphere, does not guide the viewer’s gaze, nor does it translate the memory of a singular event, thus making it impossible to create a linear and resolute temporal narrative. In addition, the public also finds pedestals along the way which, now empty, expect to hold the icons of a potential state of things, which can be intuited among the temporal layers accumulated in the space.
This is how Tempo Perso conveys, at the same time, a disarticulation, and a look into the future, settling in the latency and generating the possibilities for the gestation of an alternative present. December 2023 to March 2024.

Special thanks to Sintesis Digital, 56fili, Pablo Herguedas, Rikyboy, Mace, Gaetano Pullano, recipient.cc and Alessandro Disingrini