Pulse (Spanda)

Pulse (Spanda).

2022

Plastic, Turbins. Wood

5 x 8 meters.

The word Spanda, which from Sanskrit alludes to the primordial pulsation or creative vibration throughout the universe, serves to frame the work that will be installed at the DAC Contemporary Art, where the viewer is faced with a large oval (diaphragm) that it breathes and moves as if it were a wave. Space is intrinsically connected to time and the subject transits in the interval between the two limits of breath. This membrane (matrix) could be considered as a threshold that changes continuously from its concave shape, which invites the visitor to scrutinize the empty space, to the convex shape, which slowly invades the room forcing the spectators to retreat. I like to underline the apparent duality between presence and emptiness, internal and external, welcome and thrust, feminine and masculine; apparent because it is the same membrane that, thanks to the atmospheric pressure differences, passes from one side of the room to the other. Most of the time the viewer remains in the territory between inhalation and exhalation, where everything is possible; the membrane becomes pure plastic possibility, like the waves, all similar but none alike. Thus Pulse (Spanda) responds to the intuition that we are no longer the only ones to pass through immobile and passive space, but that space also moves around us. Nothing stands still, everything pulsates.