With this
work I propose a new reflection on the different spaces where the
contemporary work of art is inscribed in addition to presenting a new
interrogation on what cities as the great scenery of the world motivate
and comprise. In this work I speak of limits, of the fragile frontiers
separating the “public“ from the “private“, of the inside and
the outside, of the imprecise limits that can be drawn on the surface of
a postcard that travels from one place in the world to another, of the
multiple paths “opening up“ through a powerful network that is at
the same time invisible such as the Internet which allows us to be
there when actually we are
somewhere else, of all that
occurs and happens in the urban space.
Who stalks us while we walk? Who observes us when we’re
lost in the streets of our city? Who is that other one whose eyes meet
ours? Who is at this moment reading these words “on
the other side“ of the screen?
And then:
Where is the memory of the cities inscribed? Where does the gaze of its
inhabitants, its travelers, its invaders, its expelled remain inscribed?
I’m speaking of gazes. Of all kinds of looks. Including the beastly
gazes that inhabit the streets of all the cities in the world, gazes
whose pupils as they fix on mine, make my frail certainties and
confidence falter.
I invite all of you who wish to do so to
contribute your eyes, your gaze,
to this site so that through it another
limit, another territory, can manifest itself joining in this manner
and in a common space (of the web) the multiple and diverse frontiers
that constitute our contemporary world. ![](oji.jpg)
For four months the fiction of this work will constitute an
everyday reality. Along with this website and the installation at Fondaco
dei Tedescchi –Venice’s Central Post Office- a postal action and
an urban interference in the streets and on the walls of the city of
Venice will also take place.
This sector of the
Web site will only be available for the duration of the Biennial.
Graciela Sacco
Translation:
Marilyn Grandi. e-mail: marilyngrandi@usa.net
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