My heart is empty like a mirror - Catania Episode
Date: 2018
Art Form: Installation Art
Serie: מייַן האַרץ איז ליידיק ווי אַ שפּיגל (My heart is empty like a mirror)
The work, which takes its shape from the eighteenth-century Palazzo Biscari, one of the most important baroque buildings in Sicily, is thus a sort of prologue, a visionary and cruel space that occupies the central stairway, the first three chambers of the salons, and the monumental ballroom. Tosatti’s work presents itself as a journey that the visitor ventures individually: a solitary path as a visual novel that begins from the very first step of the central stairway.
Through a narrative structured by the architecture of the edifice, but rich with references to Visconti, Céline and his personal diaries, the artist orchestrates an immersive experience and transforms the palace into a contemporary ruin deprived of its genius loci. With the creation of this spectral atmosphere, halfway between presence and absence, past and future, Tosatti generates a temporal paradox that situates the visitor in what could be defined as the afterlife of modernity, a point of passage between two radically different epochs.
