L'installazione
tenta di cogliere un istante immortalato, che contraddice la storia: il tempo
cronologico che costituisce la cifra dell'infinita ricapitolazione di
un'esistenza.
Perché
quest’avvenga, occorre un tipo di fotografia che convochi questa speciale
relazione, nella quale la presenza stilistica non rischi di distrarre
l'attenzione del fatto, dall'istante, dalla persona verso l'artista che l'ha
fatta.
La
magia misteriosa delle immagini funziona anche quando si tratta d'istanti
quotidiani e di personaggi sconosciuti. Di ognuno di loro ci danno
l'impressione come se ritrovassimo un caro amico o un parente del quale
vorremmo tanto conoscere quanto si è poi svolto nella sua vita. Il destino che
ha avuto, e che davvero qualche volta sembra essere misterioso, in
quell'attimo, in quell'infinita ricapitolazione di un'esistenza.
Il
popolo vittima delle allucinazioni rivoluzionarie e brutali ha la sua posizione
in questa mappa del delirio umano; indifferente alla totale perdita della
verginità umana nei confronti della libertà e il diritto di vivere con serena
fiducia e in pieno la propria età.E' la raffigurazione essenziale di quello che divide sempre il mondo -
tra paesi prosperi e paesi disgraziati.
Mi chiedo,
come anarchico e incredulo a ogni potere: come ci si possa ancora mettere in
relazione con il mondo ingessato e decadente della virtù militare polverosa e
nostalgica.
Irony is important because then, when you look in the eyes
of this rabbit; in the eyes of the rabbit before it’s to be slaughtered, you
feel that there’s this – this sacrifice.
You feel that there is someone losing it’s life to feed
another.
– Therefore, there’s this unawareness – right? – that really
moves one to pity.
– So in some way you understand that in all of this – in
this whole situation that is always a bit dramatic – there is also irony.
– Because the irony becomes rabbit-skin glue. Irony becomes
the skin of the rabbit that then gets transformed [into rabbit-skin glue].
– So the rabbitis seized and then cooked – eaten and enjoyed, no?
1:02 – That is to say, in the midst of death – but then after
death there’s a continuation that is extremely ironic, because in the end –
this sensation of continuity is stronger than irony.
- It’s precisely this fact that it all doesn’t finish in a
single act, but that there’s a continuation, a continuation, and so in this
case I say that it is ironic.
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– The idea is to hear this roar of the rabbit, that is in reality
the roar of all animals that are sacrificed by man.
– In this case the rabbit is a life that is sacrificed to
become food to be eaten.
– But in reality, in the end the installation is an example
of mortality.
– And because to me it connects to the concept of the
massacre – of people during wartime.
– That in some way, just as we kill rabbits, which for a
person who lives in the country is totally natural
– It gives me the impression that it’s become quite natural
for us to watch people dying on the television – and even by the hundreds –
without even being troubled by it.
- Thus with this installation I just wanted to make people
reflect for a moment, and to recover something of the meaning of blood and of
death: through the example of an animal.
– Of course, I’m a meat-eater; I’m not vegetarian.
- But what is important is to cut down quite a bit on that assembly-line
presentation that we find in the supermarkets, and also to cut down on
consumption.
– Because that meat often goes to waste. It’s not necessary.
– And this, too, serves as an inquiry that can be done in
the general context of the performance – or of the installation, itself.
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– We often find ourselves criticizing;judging – no? – to condemn – no? –
certain acts, certain things, without being aware that we, ourselves, are the
actors in this drama that, obviously, I see as being extremely ironic.
- Because, really – and I’ll specify that this is according
to my opinion – I lived this experience with a great deal of irony.
- When I got over the decisive moment of death – of the
killing of the rabbit where you look in it’s eyes and obviously you feel a bit
– really quite a bit – guilty, even though you’re not the one using the knife.
- However, then, in the end – afterwards I say: “It’s okay
-after all this is part of life.”
- It’s the form through which we are living; through which
we are interacting.
- Therefore, it’s all ironic.... In the end it all becomes
almost easy – if we overcome this moment of death, no?
