Via Foce, Lugano, Switzerland
Conceived in direct relation to the existing architecture and its urban and natural context, the artwork unfolds as an horizontal narrative in which the characteristic physical elements of the facade, visual components, and symbolic elements engage in dialogue, playing with light, rhythm, and the relationship between the real and the represented.
By harnessing the light coming from inside the windows, the artwork lights up and fades according to the time of day, with twelve subjects setting its dynamics in an effort to evoke the coexistence of different ecosystems, cohabitation, the relationship between the local and the global, an unified vision of nature and of balance in which everyone plays an active role; but also a detached, non-empathic perception, shaped by an anthropocentric perspective in an era heavily defined by visual digital communication.
In the rhythmic sequence of the bears and their corresponding screens, each tied to a different aquatic environment, a symbolic flow emerges, a river that runs parallel to the real one.
Progress photo by © Divisione eventi e congressi, Città di Lugano