INTIMA – Donatella Schilirò

DONATELLA SCHILIRÒ – Intima, 2010
Bent cast polymetilmetacrylate, digital print and modular neon light multicolor. Dimensions: 75 x 200 x 10 cm.
Technical sponsor: NeonStile.

“Intima” wishes to bring inside the museum the images we own already but are lost in memory. Within the museum, residual memories, visual stratified fragments crept into an interchange of mental values: a visual fusion between inside and outside, resulting from superimpositions of visual memories and true contextual reflections. The shadow of the path on the Earth, like a light’s memory, meets the sky by means of the luminous flare of an airplane, thus traveling together. The track in the sand, walked on and negated in its ephemeral material evanescence, become multicoloured lighted up, in a slow and continuous change of light and colour, until it creates a mysterious intimacy between sky and earth. Light that mutates as time goes by and will never be the same during the days, thus evocating the life’s strength, according to a special technique tested by the artist in her laboratory.
Earth and sky interact as in an intimate conversation and that compenetrating sign creates an imaginary crack on the earth. The material’s transparency reveals through the sing that hides the writing, our true essence, helped by its codex.