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Ciclotrama 50 (wind)
SITE-SPECIFIC
Permanent
Site-specific Installation
CURATOR
Dieter Buchhart
YEAR
2018
LOCATION
Foundation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
SERIES
Wind
DIMENSION
5.5 x 14 x 1.2 m
MATERIALS
20 m of blue nylon rope, 24 mm diameter and 4.100 golden nails
CREDITS
Photo: Atelier Mello Landini
Photo: Marc Domage
ABOUT THIS WORK
Text by Janaina Mello Landini
The Carmignac Foundation is located on Porquerolles Island. To get there, people need to take a boat and walk to the museum site. The installation Ciclotrama 50 (wind) is the first work that the visitor experiences after having left their shoes at the entrance.
The installation takes place in two moments. First, it brings together the objects recently seen in the harbor and then invites the visitor to go down the stairs, as if in a sort of labyrinth portal to what will come from that staircase onwards, like Ariadne's thread that shows the path, initially "uno", but in which it bifurcates into infinite possibilities of other encounters in the subjectivity of each visitor.
A Ciclotrama is a section of a continuous and binary cycle, it is a schematic structure with a hierarchical feature, composed of interdependent parts.
Ultimately, the observer is offered by the Ciclotramas, a place of rhythmic relations, where the rope expands itself, successively dividing in 2, and 2, and 2 parts, in geometric progression, till the last fiber when it reaches the wall.
Probably as a result of that, metaphorically, the Ciclotramas are similar to natural structures, like the roots of a plant, neural branches, or microscopic structures, or they can represent the mapping of paths or individual movements, creating a kind of social cartography, and so on
As we know, the term site-specific refers to a work of art designed specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location.
My first inspiration comes from the warped and twisted island's trees into these crooked, windswept shapes. In the past, the island was occupied or frequented by Celts, Ligurians, Etruscans, the Greeks and Romans who came through “wind power” ships and used the island as a shelter against bad weather.
Today it is a charming port where the boaters moored in the turquoise coves and where people go back and forth by boats feeling the pleasure of the wind in the face.
The Ciclotrama's main idea is to create a physical experience of tension, depicting imaginary networks which define spaces and retell narratives.
At first, we see a nautical rope tied around a marble cleat hook installed on the wall. From there, the Ciclotrama starts its expansion in the walls and ceiling of the staircase. At the second moment, the rope will occupy the entire opposite wall as twisted by the movement of the wind.
This Ciclotrama is an invitation to people to go into an immersive movement down stairs and then met the museum.

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