Sguardo su Vaia
In the aftermath of Vaia (29 October 2018), walking the mountain paths in the vast affected areas was no longer possible: banned, cluttered, devastated.
Thousands, millions of crashes: the paths disappeared, buried by the bodies of trees felled by the fury of the elements. For a few months, it was no longer possible to walk in the woods: walking had become almost a primitive form of climbing, with the hands and back being more useful than the legs.
Climbing the stems to the ground, often in bunches or twisted piles, going around them, leaving the trail, upset or lost. The orientations have been skipped, the travel times have changed: first of all the method of travel has changed: the paths, to be retraced. After almost a year since Vaia, some of these trails have been restored. The gaps have opened.
But many remain impassable, cluttered, obliterated.
How to get around?
Redefining the paths hidden under the fallen trees, turning your gaze upwards, towards Vaia, this is the starting assumption of Simone Cametti.
A new tracking.
The artist decided to mark his new paths directly above the bodies of trees.
In this way one is forced to get lost among the messy slopes, to look for other points of reference, to codify new points of reflection with respect to the very concept of climbing, defining a path above to the other: overwriting the tracks.
Gianluca d’Inca Levis
"From the Colony I recovered forty meters of fluorescent tube with related functioning reactors. During an evening in July, spent in the Cametti house, in the Colony, I defined the space in which to produce the work, I positioned the fluorescent tubes on a fir tree that had fallen into the woods, seventeen meters long, I created the connections, I turned on the generator.
The work produced is a fixed shot, where the neon light lights up the forest above for a few minutes. Halfway through the video, the generator shuts down, redefining time and the noise of space.