Emilio Corti and Luisa Mizzoni cooperate for the first time in the realization of an ambient installation, Mohenjo-Daro. The title of the work comes from one of the main cities of the Indo civilization, dating back to 3300 b.C. and characterized by constructions conceived according to strict architectonical rules. Mohenjo-Daro was destroyed several times by the Indo river floodings, and stubbonly rebuilt upon its own ruins, with an unceasing geometrical will, as in the expectation to impose rules to nature’s blind forces.
The exhibition space is de-materialized by video projections: Inert bodies float in a light blue atmosphere, in a slown down time and space, where death, intended as abandon of phisical body, suggests archetipal reflections on the sense of life.
The images reflect upon the water that floods the room, setting the viewer at the center of an abyss, a synthesis of sky and water, that spreads above and below him.
The sound ambient amplifies the eco and the oscillation of the figures in their watery oblivion, suggesting a tie between our present and the ancient Indian civilization.
Text by Elisa Gusella