INTERSEZIONI

permutato ordine, positura, figura…

Lucrezio, De rerum natura, Liber I

The installation that runs through the three consecutive rooms of the Library consists of a single broken line in perpetual motion: a sequence of segments connected by flexible joints. A system of counterweighted cables continuously determines its configuration, redefining the proportions of space while alluding to the ideal space of knowledge.   The three rooms of the Library are dedicated to history, philology, and science. The uninterrupted passage of the line establishes a longitudinal connection between these fields, while its mobility generates a transversal link that suggests the constant redefinition of the boundaries between domains of knowledge—long considered distinct and now increasingly interconnected within the perspective of contemporary studies.The angles formed by the segments change in every direction and at different speeds: some remain temporarily still, awaiting the emergence of a new configuration elsewhere. The line presents itself as form, yet through its movement it manifests as gesture.Each configuration corresponds to a multiplicity of events in the cables and counterweights: a visible echo that propagates throughout the entire structure. This behavior may be compared to what occurs within disciplines of knowledge, where no advancement remains isolated but reverberates across the entire system.The formal vocabulary of the whole, composed essentially of pure lines, seeks to free itself from the contingencies of the present, as if suspended outside of time—between geometric sketches, diagrams, and architectural proportions—in search of the essential.