Withering

installation

cotton socks, bleach

dimensions variable

2021

This installation embodies an exploration of disintegration, seen as the process of separating elements over time. Starting with an industrial object of consumption, I initiate the gradual disappearance of its physical and linguistic boundaries. At the core lies the desire to emphasize the return to the indefinable realm of matter, tied to the natural cycle of decomposition.

This investigation begins with a collection of mismatched socks, sourced from the unconscious archives of relatives and friends. Instead of discarding these socks, they keep them, awaiting the reappearance of their pair. Once one sock is lost, the remaining one becomes useless, deprived of its original function, and starts to deteriorate in its semantic and figurative role.

I view mismatched socks as a metaphor for broader actions: walking together and then getting lost, standing up and self-asserting, weakening and wearing out until almost disappearing. These objects take on an identity of their own, transforming into something else independently.

The use of materials follows two main processes. The first involves the creation of consumer goods and the role of the consumer. The second involves my intervention to reclaim the object, also considering recycling, and its partial destruction. The mismatched socks are immersed in bleach, causing the loss of color, weakening, and breaking of fibers. New forms are generated, aligned on parallel lines, stripped of linguistic confinement and physical definition.

Tirze di strisce di tessuto bianco e altri colori disposte su una superficie di legno scuro.
Pezzetti di tessuto o carta bianca e igienica arrotolata sparsi su una superficie scura, probabilmente un pavimento di legno.
Calze di tessuto ai piedi e pelucchi di carta sul pavimento scuro.

works

Varie strisce di tessuto bianco e sporco sparse su una superficie scura.