letter to immortality, 2014
Gilded metal, woven ribbon carpet · 33 × 33 × 210 cm · Diameter 123 cm
Chanonat Chapel, Auvergne
The obelisk — an archaic and universal form, pointing toward the sky since the earliest civilizations — placed on a checkerboard-woven carpet that evokes the most fundamental metaphysical questions. A direct reference to Gino De Dominicis, whose manifesto for the search for immortality deeply inspired this work — and through him, to the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest human narratives about the quest for transcendence and the confrontation with death.
The obelisk does not represent immortality: it desires it. It places death at the center of its questions, as Gilgamesh placed the loss of his friend Enkidu at the center of his. The woven carpet — earthly, human, domestic surface — supports this aspiration toward what surpasses human time. Deep time and the desire for transcendence: two ways of responding to the same fundamental question.