το σπίτι του Ηρακλή / VA. by Stirpe999
το σπίτι του Ηρακλή
From collective memory’s subconcious, the story of an imperfect God comes to us, Heracles myth. Illegitimate son of Zeus, who will face with superhuman strength 12 trials to atone a single moment of madness. The semi god in his wrath kills his family and relatives, not sparing his children, destroing his own life. For the ancient Greeks madness was not to be attributed to the human being, to his behavioral or mental dysfunctions but to the will of the Gods.
It is in fact Hera, wife of Zeus feeling betrayed, grows such a strong hate towards heracles that induces him to madness and murder.
Heracles’ mandness and its consequences, as well as its matrix, superior to human will and conscience, suggest a parallel with the situation we are currently experiencing, imprisoned in a dimension of collective madness.
“And me,
who adduce my house to such a disastrous end, like the vessel behind the ship,
I follow Tesèo “
As the imperfect God alleges his house to shameful purpose, the human being today seems to want to destroy his own house, the Earth he inhabits, as much as the ideal house he thought he had built over centuries of “progress” and “civilization”.
The pandemic has accelerated the unraveling process of a social and political system long gone dead already, releasing nightmares that would frighten even Heracles.
The post-human man in his collective body has become a monster, ready to devour anything before himself. Prey of latest divinity’s up-grade, the social media bubble.
Once again translate the dystopic landscape that surrounds us through a multi-handed work.
A VA, different tracks and artists reinterpreted by the gestures of Nadia D’Alessio. Imprinted forever on a limited number of zinc engravings. The artist acts as a filter between the visual and sound planes, collecting, filtering and reworking the sound objects instantly, injuring the surface with a three-dimensional sign, in a low relief obtained from the slow corrosion of the metal plates thanks to the use of compositions chemical. Unstructured rhythms, rarefied and dark textures, distant dimensions sewn together by barbed wire.
Thru the artist’s vision radical sounds and corroded metals are taking a new and complicit meaning.
Celebrating Decadence While Everything Burns
