PROLOGUE
A nest of aluminum threads, unexpectedly found in an airplane factory, generates the illusion of discovery: the created-found object. Mother Nature allows for such an experience. Adriana Cervi has the gift of creatively discovering objects, thus establishing an aesthetic dialogue that culminates in a creation: a video. By appropriating that weaving, she gives it a particular twist: she transfers it to a film studio that, in turn, resembles a brick cave where the work is projected in the background. A refuge, a space that shelters both the idea and the video itself. A nest within another nest that harbors a thousand nests, imagined, thought, dreamed. Nest - Home - Body. The visual journey begins when the camera approaches the work until it reveals the meticulous weave of threads, and then moves away to place it within the environment conceived by the artist.
This back-and-forth, similar to the hypnotic movement of a pendulum that advances and recedes, directly dialogues with Leonora Carrington's phrase:"The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope."Micro and macrocosms: the detail seeks to unveil secrets, it illuminates the unconscious; distance opens depth, relocates the object onto another plane, and alludes to a broader horizon.
Yet the work remains enigmatic, as it inhabits a fictitious and desolate landscape. The tension that arises in this repetitive game of barely one minute provokes multiple re-thinkings: Time and Space. Feminine and Masculine. Immanence and Transcendence. The feminine: mother, earth, home, being.The masculine: dynamism, movement, the impulse to go further, to discover, to act.Private and Public.To the play of Light and shadows, sound is added. The wind, with its rough murmur, envelops the image and reinforces the atmosphere, establishing a dialogue between desolation and resistance, between technology and landscape.It is also a murmur of the future. Birds inspired the human desire to fly and the invention of airplanes. The past illuminates a possible future. Thus, the unseltling strangeness ignites in the face of the unknown and uncanny that a ball of wire may contain.An unusual object falls into the hands of an artist who explores, experiments, and investigates until giving shape to a splendid work whose title-an oxymoron-announces the poetic vision unfolded in its creation. The work moves the spirit and awakens an aesthetic pleasure that illuminates images and ideas capable of opening paths toward the enigmas of Life. The mystery of origins nests in The Silent Scream.
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Patricia O’Donnell
Psiquiatra,Psicoanalista
* The nest I refer to was found in the vicinity of an airplane factory and was entirely made of aluminum threads by a pigeon.
* The conceptual aspect, together with the video, constitutes the Artwork..
The Silent Scream, that shudder which appears when the voice cannot reach.In this case, it is nature that accuses and points out through a pigeon's nest: a place where life begins, beautifully built with aluminum threads, a highly industrialized material.l took it in my hands and, in solitude, upon my worktable, I placed on it a beam of light-an element that for me represents the very Life of beings. And it is there that space transcends, when seeing projected on a large scale the shadow of the nest's weave.l was able to perceive a refraction of artificiality through a dark lattice where life passed through the artifices of light. The nest was no longer an object: it was a mirror that returned to me my own fragility, with the certainty that we inhabit a world woven with threads of light and shadow.Our most intimate spaces are today occupied not by matter that in itself holds beauty and content, but by the materiality that invades us-and viscerally, humanity silently screams its survival.Yet, it does not surrender to the artifice: it inhabits it, transforms it, and makes it its own. Perhaps that is the true scream: the one that does not destroy, but clings to existence. In the most hostile margins, life reinvents itself to endure.
video frame
Space: Images are provided of the recording site, approximately 5.00 x 7.00 m. For its realization, location and space are to be agreed upon according to the characteristics of the Work.
Video: The back wall was used in its entirety for projection. It is a one-minute video loop (it may be longer), a fragment that repeats constantly. A sequence was chosen in which the junction from one loop to the next is imperceptible, and the nest's shadow appears to advance, as if coming toward the spectator.
Sound: The audio is composed of wind sounds of varying intensities, along with leaves carried by the wind and tree tops receiving the breeze. The sound intensities are randomized. The video contains one audio segment, since the complete track lasts 7 minutes and repeats constantly, just as the video does.
Nest: This nest was taken as a reference because of its uniqueness, having been built by a pigeon with aluminum threads. It is mounted on a structure made of two bamboo canes screwed onto a wooden base on the floor. At about 1.60 m in height, a perforation was made in one cane to place a branch upon which the nest rests. It is Located at the center of the space. Due to its small scale and the chosen height, it does not interfere with the projected images; on the contrary, "as the image on the screen advances and enlarges, nest and image become a single center of visual attention.
Lighting: The space has a single spotlight focused on the nest, leaving only the light emitted by the screen, while the rest remains in semi-darkness.
VIDEO INSTALLATION
VIDEO OF THE WORK
REALIZATION PROCESS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Marcos Romero - B.A. in Audiovisual Communication. Photography and Videos of the Nest Miguel Angel García - Architect. Rendering
Mariano Giménez - B.A. in Audiovisual Communication. Sound Agustina Souberan - Photography of the process of creation Acknowledgment to Blas Pascal University for providing the spaces for the realization of this project.
Special thanks to Nélida Von Müller, Biologist, who trusted me by giving me this Nest.