Leonardo Dal Bo Lo Porto

Suture - How To Fix The Seashell

Suture questions the footprints of man and time, tracing an interdependent dialogue between architectural marks and their contexts. The adjoining environment becomes an integral part of the medium.

I use reclaimed tin instead of newly extracted one. It carries along a history made of previous uses. Through a potentially endless circular process of melting and solidification, I shape it from context to context.
With a non-irreversible approach, Suture is immediately usable for new needs if it extinguishes its installation character: the "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed" principle of mass conservation or Lavoisier's law, 1789.

Tin on limestone,
Marseille, Parc De La Maison Blanche,
mid-19th-century limestone staircase.
May 2023
Arts Éphémères

Suture - How To Fix The Seashell
Suture questions the footprints of man and time, tracing an interdependent dialogue between architectural marks and their contexts. The adjoining environment becomes an integral part of the medium.

I use reclaimed tin instead of newly extracted one. It carries along a history made of previous uses. Through a potentially endless circular process of melting and solidification, I shape it from context to context.
With a non-irreversible approach, Suture is immediately usable for new needs if it extinguishes its installation character: the "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed" principle of mass conservation or Lavoisier's law, 1789.

Tin on limestone,
Marseille, Parc De La Maison Blanche,
mid-19th-century limestone staircase.
May 2023, Arts Éphémères