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Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos
with Graziano Martignoni
Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos
Hi,
I'm thinking about Moses,
grown up in Egypt, almost rich as a Pharaoh,
who decides to go into exile,
looking for the a promised land,
but to never reach it,
actually, to only see it from far away.
But are we all like this,
always at a step from destination?
Man has always had,
as a figure of his existence,
the condition of exile.
This I think corresponds to
the tale of the man who becomes a man,
in almost all traditions,
it not only is part of the Hebrew
and Christian traditions,
we know it's also in other traditions.
It means that somehow,
the condition of freedom
which man has,
puts him constantly in the condition
to not completely belong
to the things that surround him.
In the end, differently from animals
which belong to the world,
they are the world,
we detach ourselves immediately
in the way that we become man,
in the way that we start talking about things.
How to say, we need to fill the silence,
because silence doesn't really belong to us.
If silence belongs to the silent
automatic gestures of the world of the animals,
for example,
here and there of the children,
but we, as soon as we become owners
of the language,
paradoxically we get the idea
of owning something,
because we have the capacity,
while talking about it, to mark off,
to classify, to organize,
to use as instruments the things
that we are able to say,
but in the sametime we atone for this exile,
which stays inside the existence.
And then there are, naturally,
other exiles, which we have tried
and we try desperately somehow
to govern.
We realize that our body
is the great territory of our exile,
inside where we sometimes get lost,
inside of which we don't recognize ourselves.
These affairs which are part
of the order of the body,
of the landscapes of the body,
are today the heart of the inner research
on an attempt to confront,
to obstruct, to erase the condition of exile,
which is then impossible
to erase conclusively.
Just think about plastic surgery,
just think about the ways to don't get old,
the spread of the antiadultism
What is all this?
Those signs, those phenomena
of daily life which we often see,
we realize, we consider them
belong to the area of time,
how to say, are the ways,
if we would like to reassume them,
are some ways to try to consider
this condition of exile.
Obviously, the risk is
to do a calculus,
to try illusory strategies which,
somehow, take us back,
sometimes painfully,
to the starting point.
Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos