Demiurgo

video art for Italian design day

2024

Each object is therefore a way of seeing the world and, above all, a proposal of how to inhabit it.

It all begins with a large neutral space, desolate and silent, and on the floor, a random expanse of fragments can be seen, a sort of primordial soup of materials made up of countless pieces of objects.

This is where the performer enters the scene and begins to set in motion, one after another, the objects that, invisible to the naked eye, hide in this expanse of debris.

Setting in motion means that the performer’s dance retraces the rhythms and dynamics that the object proposes in space, allowing the spectator to find analogies between the emotion that arises from the movement and the one that comes from the presence of the object.

Through the choreography, the performer reassembles the fragments one after another; the movement thus represents the soul of the object, a playful soul capable of rethinking the space around itself always through new categories. Now functionality, now beauty, now irony.

This view of objects on the world is given by their behavior in the performance space; they have an active part as real characters, with their specific traits and behaviors.

The image is borrowed directly from the mythical tale of the Platonic demiurge who, faced with the “Chora”, the formless matter, orders the world thanks to the ideas he possesses. This demiurgic role, however, is not entrusted to the performer alone, as a counterpart to the designer, but also to the products of his work themselves, which, by discovering space, by proposing lines, rhythms, and materials, convey the spirit of the designer himself.

Each object is therefore a way of seeing the world and, above all, a proposal of how to inhabit it.