L'Escondut
“Il loro tronco, ampio e curvo, è un invito a tracciare segni (…)”
(Breve storia degli alberi da lettura, Giuseppe Barbera)
The “Escondut” is a return work of the “Beica ben” residence, located in the Valle Grana in the Cuneo district, it consists of an installation placed between the Occitan folklore and the environment, a widespread work that becomes a journey and invites to take the walking path that joins the red spinning wheel and the apple orchard, small gaps and different terrains, it’s quite possible to spot the Escondut (the hidden), an Occitan folklore new creation.
The Escondut is shapless, but somehow it appears, hidden between the branches. You can see it checking the trees with great care, searching for big or small eyes painted over a hundred logs that shows on the surface of the bark that typicall eye shake growth, during a walk of vigilant liabilities, slowing down the pace to turn your gaze higher up compared to the slowness of the feet: (…) that’s how you see it: if you are open to the novelties, if you choose to keep going even if you are uncertain about where the road leads, if you accept that you can fall, if you think that even if something is a little bit hidden is still worth it. That’s when you discover it, see it, l’Escondut, and it sees you,” the story tells. Admitting that life moves the same way, as a precarious search that moves forward into the unknown, that gives relevance to what is not immediately clear, to things that have no practical benefit, things that happens almost like a stealthy accident.
The widespread work L'Escondut is a declaration of belonging to a horizon that gives value to the unseen, to what seems uncontrollable, whose nature is to awaken the desire for a more iridescent existence, attentive to the contingent, in perpetual redefinition.
Site-specific installation (Caraglio, CN)
Red spinning wheel
Non-toxic tree painting
Narration by Caterina Ramonda
2023
ph. Mattia Gaido
