Angolo Scontento (Hommage à la mort di Sigmund Freud)
Angolo Scontento (Hommage à la mort di Sigmund Freud)
Copper, person born in 1939
A 19-meter long copper band, three centimetres thick and 70 centimetres high, is cut and mounted to form a corner. The sculpture is suspended 70 centimetres from the ground, the outside of the sculpture is opaque while the interior is mirror polished. Inside the sculpture there is a chair where an 80-year-old man or woman, born in 1939, sits. 1939 is the year of the death of Sigmund Freud, the man who, listening to the lives of others, tried to understand the secret mechanisms that regulate our moods.
When someone approaches the sculpture, the performer begins to speak by saying his name, his date of birth and telling about fragments of his life. The work is the materialization of the temporal distance between a definitive action, the death of Freud, and today. The idea of anniversary as celebration of a death is analysed through its opposite: a life, that of the performer, that began when Freud died. The sculpture is destined to change over time because every year that passes increases the age of the performer, housed in the corner, as well as it increases the distance between the present and the death of Freud, until the work can no longer be inhabited.