Leonardo Dal Bo Lo Porto

Suture - Staging the Act and the Act of Staging

Suture - Staging the Act and the Act of Staging is an installation part of the sculpture series Suture*, a project that questions the footprints of time on man-made environments and the impact of the latter on its inhabitantsThis time, the artwork reenacts the impact of time within the conventional exhibition space, a typically neutral and decontextualizing location. Displacing the sculpture from the public environment, the cradle of its conception, challenges the power of fiction.

Reclaimed tin is used instead of newly extracted material, carrying a history made of previous uses. Through a potentially endless circular process of melting and solidification, it is shaped from setting to setting. Processed in a reversible way, the day Suture eventually loses its installation character, it will immediately become usable for new needs: "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed" principle of mass conservation or Lavoisier's law, 1789.

*A Modernist Heritage + How To Fix The Seashell + Crumbling Together.

Suture - Staging the Act and the Act of Staging
is an installation part of the sculpture series Suture*, a project that questions the footprints of time on man-made environments and the impact of the latter on its inhabitants. This time, the artwork reenacts the impact of time within the conventional exhibition space, a typically neutral and decontextualizing location. Displacing the sculpture from the public environment, the cradle of its conception, challenges the power of fiction.

Reclaimed tin is used instead of newly extracted material, carrying a history made of previous uses. Through a potentially endless circular process of melting and solidification, it is shaped from setting to setting. Processed in a reversible way, the day Suture eventually loses its installation character, it will immediately become usable for new needs: "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed" principle of mass conservation or Lavoisier's law, 1789.

*A Modernist Heritage + How To Fix The Seashell + Crumbling Together.