2008

Installation - 4 Video Projection - Water - Bricks - Sound

Music and sounds: Jason Stringer and Infrason

Sound design: Marco Molteni

Luisa Mizzoni alias luxi lu, and Emilio Corti collaborate for the first time on the creation of an immersive installation, Mohenjo-Daro. The title of the work comes from one of the main cities of the Indus civilization, dating back to 3300 B.C., characterized by constructions designed according to strict architectural rules.
Mohenjo-Daro was destroyed several times by the flooding of the Indus River and stubbornly rebuilt upon its own ruins, with an unceasing geometric will, as if attempting to impose order on the blind forces of nature.
The exhibition space is de-materialized through video projections: inert bodies float in a pale blue atmosphere, in a slowed-down time and space, where death, understood as the abandonment of the physical body, evokes archetypal reflections on the meaning of life. The images reflect on the water flooding the room, placing the viewer at the center of an abyss, a synthesis of sky and water, extending above and below them.
The ambient sound amplifies the echoes and oscillations of the figures in their watery oblivion, suggesting a connection between our present and the ancient Indus civilization.

by Elisa Gusella