I tried to leave
Installation site specific, 52 piecies
101° Collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
Ivan had moved to Venice; Ivan loved Venice. But one day he locked himself in his room; “I wanna try to leave this place”, he said. And no one has ever seen him leave the room since then.
A long time later an old box was found among his effects. The box was full of never sent postcards.
Synopsis
Postcards never sent from a trip that never took place.
Collection of 52 piecies: one postcard a week for a year.
A playful revisitation of the rise of a depression that attempts to resolve itself in a weekly getaway from Venice.
Every escape ends where it was born, Ivan never left the room again. But the postcards must travel: each person must take one with them and send it.
Only by sending the postcards Ivan's journey can be completed.
And the depression seen as a negative (elimination of oneself) finds its positive in the elimination of postcards.
