CONTAGION MULTIMETRONOME

The clip CONTAGION_ MULTIMETRONOME is based on the analogue work CONTAGION, a sequence of thirty plates (metaphotographs), fifteen from the 2013 SERIES and fifteen from the 2021 SERIES, which have as their basic symbol the image of the brain, arranged in a repeated orthogonal grid of twenty-five cells, GRID AS AN ABSTRACTION OF THE WORLD. The figure of the brain symbolizes complexity; it is thought and action together; the brain is the synthesis of the individual, it is the person, not the anatomy, not the multiple tasks that the organ has in our physiology, in the body and in the mind. In the sequential arrangement of the plates, one cell, then another and then another, empties. The appearance and disappearance proceed in a capricious manner – referring to the randomness of existence – refined and modulated by the repetition of the sign, FROM RED TO GREEN AND FROM GREEN TO RED. In cyclic time, the eternal return. THE STORY. A community of individuals, initially neatly crowded together, suddenly and for no apparent reason, gradually leaves empty spaces, transforming the structure achieved, undermining the existing balance until it is reduced to zero. The black frame represents the “pause”. But immediately afterwards, the balance is restored, starting with individuals of different colors, with red giving way to its complementary color, green. THE SEQUENCE, IN ITS CIRCULARITY, COULD REPEAT ITSELF, INEVITABLY, INFINITELY. CONTAGION MULTIMETRONOME soundtrack distorts and exaggerates the rhythm of the metronome beat, transforming it into a fast-paced, high-pitched, relentless, disturbing chronometer, reinforcing the inevitability of the sequence's unalterable progression. Almost a destiny from which there is no escape. The unstoppable progression of linear time on the one hand, and the inscrutable and immutable cycle of life - that is, circular time - on the other. The clip was presented at Fabrizio Borelli's solo exhibition ‘FIGURAZIONE SENZA TEMPO Contagion 2013 - 2022’ at the MLAC - Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea - Sapienza University of Rome, 15 November - 6 December 2022. https://news.uniroma1.it/15112022_1800