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Vertical Horizon | Riyadh - Rome

Vertical Horizon is the largest light installation in the world.
A huge slab of light crosses the planet, sinking and emerging from one side to the other, the angle of the screen is exactly calculated to enter Riyadh and exit Rome.
A luminous plate sensitive to living stimuli, thanks to a system of sensors, atmospheric and environmental data in real time, thermal cameras and active microphones h 24. Vertical Horizon cuts the planet in two, the two opposite sides emerging from the ground reveal to the public, one in Riyadh and the other in Rome, capturing everything that is alive including the vibrations of the ground, sounds, passers-by heat, each captured element is transformed in real time into digital fluids, shades dynamics of color that blend together in an imaginative palette of the senses. 
The environment is therefore the real creator of the work, always different and unexpected.


Vertical Horizon wants to reflect on the idea that everything is connected, viewers on one side will see the vital energies of the audience on the other side of the planet and vice versa, creating a sort of pictorial hallucination that unites elements that are kilometers away, apparently distant but inevitably connected.
The passage of a visitor in Riyadh generates digital waves in Rome, while a drop of rain in Rome creates a cascade of fragmented pixels in Riyadh. This is to underline the concept of the Butterfly effect for which each of our actions is not only important but fundamental.

If it is true that the Theater ceases to exist in the absence of spectators, the Vertical Horizon instead continues to live, the two screens that protrude from the ground will continue uninterruptedly to capture the presence and energies of invisible elements such as atmospheric pressure, humidity, UV rays, the passage of small animals or the light breath of the wind, coloring and changing into fantastic stroboscopic shapes and polychromies. This is to suggest that the apparent emptiness is actually teeming with life, the nothingness is underestimated presence, the microscopic is at the same time immense and the presence of the grain of sand or the ant are not only fundamental, but they move the world.
Vertical Horizon | Riyadh - Rome
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