9,81
9.81 channels the artistic research of Simone Cametti towards an increasingly complex performative process in which the body and light are the vectors of a dialogue with space, nature and time. The elaboration of the performative action will be aimed at producing videos and photos showing a luminous trace.
Concept
In 9.81 an archaic gesture, such as lifting one's body onto a rock wall, contains complex ramifications that include a reflection on human possibilities and will. An action that establishes a close union with the environment, in a dynamic structure of interaction between body and space. In the performance on which the project is based, the artist exposes his body to the difficulty of an ascent, in which every single movement produced to approach the wall becomes a profound meditation in which the moment expands, almost stopping to metabolize the tracked.
The desire and effort of this slow ascent, which takes on ancestral values, perpetually clashes with the physical force of downward attraction. And it is precisely this constant gravity that gives the project its title, that acceleration of gravity that attracts bodies towards the center of the earth at 9.81 meters per second squared.
In this complex dialogue between the climber and the stone, between the slowness of the climb and the speed of a falling body, between the effort to overcome one's limits and the acceptance of one's materiality, the need to leave a luminous mark arises which, by defining a portion of the vertical path, channels energies and demolishes that antithetical thought of developing meridians and parallels; only the resistance of a projection remains. The artist's body and the rock wall thus become the emblem of the human body committed to overcoming its own limits and at the same time the limits imposed by nature, such as the highest mountains, which create a barrier, a border, a frontier.
The light is produced by means of a headlamp positioned on the artist's head. The following image is the result of several long exposure photographs.