DOMESTIC HORIZON
by DANIELE SPANÒ
Among the first artists to believe in the then nascent Seminaria in 2011-exactly 10 years ago-Daniel Spanò is now in his third artistic residency in Maranola. From his knowledge of the village and its inhabitants, “Domestic Horizon,” a multimedia installation enclosed in the large room of what was once an old noble house, now uninhabited, was born for #seminaria2021. The work was born from the observation of the place and the collaboration of the inhabitants.
A sheet laid out to dry outside the window is like a flag, a manifesto declaring “I am here”; it is the private space that flows into the public one; the extension of domestic intimacy into the sphere of the collective imagination. Perhaps this is what Daniele Spanò thought as he contemplated with his nose to the sky the cloths laid out in the sun among Maranolese alleys. So the artist summoned the citizenry, asking for donations of cloths, tablecloths and sheets that he then dipped into a bath of blue, the same blue as the sky over the mountains and the sea in the Gulf. That blue demarcates a horizon line that both unites and divides from the rest of the world. “Domestic Horizon” investigates the relationship between social and private space through a complex artistic research that puts new media at the service of ancient narratives related to the nature of the human being.
The result is a living and unpredictable sculpture made of painting, music, video, algorithms and air. A mixture of analog and digital elements that shapes a poetic formal statement and at the same time an assertion of the limits of the individual within the socio, political, and economic system.
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