Nicole Voltan: Entropy, Neurons
- Published: Thursday, November 28 2013 00:00
Soma, project of installation, room 29 / Forte Carpenedo, Venice.
Soma / Invasive Neuronal Signal is a sound/light/sculpture and site-specific installation in room 29 at the Forte Carpenedo.
Noises, buzzes and beats symbolize what happens in our minds or in the earthly subsoil. A disordered habitat, a dusty and chaotic mind's sound, where the human body is well represented in an escalation of heart's beats, which soon leading to collapse.
Another habitat, more sculptural and corporeal, seems a jumbled reticulum of infinitesimal connections and links. Neurons form not only the whole mind, with its memories and knowledges, but also govern the body's muscles and the pain. Mind and body are always and inseparably connected in a deep network and there is the possibility that the dominium of the body over the mind or of the mind over the body, creates a conflict that can never be solved, except by the destruction of one of the two parts. What happens to the neurons, which are responsible of both sides?
Soma, site-specific installation: needles, thread, room 29 (2013)
SOMA / Invasive Neuronal Signal
Site-specific installation – 2013 – Room n ° 29 (7.5 X 2 - h 2 meters) – Sound, light and cotton thread
Sistema Entropia
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Sistema Entropia, detail of the installation: digital photography, phosphor painting, graphite, wood (2011)
Two parallel spheres of observation: a scientific one, with the physics of entropy and a purely linguistic one. The entropy is the measurament of the disorder or randomness in a closed system. It is the loss of information and of energy, this means that if there is more entropy, there are also more probabilities of combination between each component of a system. The increment of the entropy is the natural condition of reality and it is necessary for establish the time's arrow and the one-way direction of the events.
Sistema Entropia tries to explain this entropic process through an installation of fourteen photographs, back lightened with phosphorous, where multi-directional arrows describe the reading order of the work. In each photo is printed a letter and If one is combined with the others in the right order, it is possible to read the names of the eight planets of our solar system. While the visitors observe the artwork, the darkness comes with a rythmical time interval that suggests the cycle of the day and night, but thanks to the physical properties of the phosphor capable of holding back light in time, Sistema Entropia remains visible also in the night.
Sistema Entropia, installation view: 14 digital photographies, phosphor painting, graphite, wood (2011)
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Sistema Entropia, project of the installation
Nexus
Nexus, site-specific installation: watercolor on paper, wood, paper mache, coffee, mud and water in olives's jar (2012)
Nexus (from Latin: connection, link) reflects on the concept of the visual communication, through the relationship between information, which is fundamental to the observer to understand the sequence of the events, and the so-called reductio ad absurdum, a deduction that start by exclusion of the probability most improbable and impossible.
If in a system some informations are missing, the mind tries to re-establish the connection between the events through deductions.
Thus watercolors tell us what it could be in the missing bark of the wood, where the tree has lived and its history and its present.
But if the point of observation of an event changes, then also the logical hierarchy of the system is disrupted and received informations may appear to be erroneous. The language is then evaluated in a negative form and the point of view of observation overthrown. And then the trees grow from the ceiling, the branches disappear into the floor and the roots climb into the sky. The plants grow in a mason jar. Without oxygen. And their micro-organisms survive and tell us about the life of that piece of wood. And this is the smallest part of a complex system always in communication and relationship: nature.
Nexus, site-specific installation. Detail of the jar with micro-organisms
Nexus, site-specific installation. Detail of the watercolor on wood
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