Dismantle: Once we get to the top

Dismantle: Once we get to the top is an installation that takes form in 2020 during an artistic residency in Ragusa, inside the former A. Ancione industrial plant. A series of interventions that merge with the impressive industrial archeology of the Ragusa area and which pose questions on the theme of anthropization and the obsolescence of the swirling cycles that characterized the human footprint in the industrial era.

The sense of economic power and the security of well-being guaranteed by the mineral resources coming from the subsoil quickly faced technological obsolescence and the rise of new economic models, making those imposing and robust iron structures anything but resilient. As if to symbolize the failure of a capitalist system that has profited from natural resources by modifying the territory and leaving a heavy legacy on the shoulders of the new generations who will have to plan an idea of the future starting from enormous environmental, economic and political catastrophes, but according Mark Fisher “We are pervaded by this capitalist realism, that is, by the widespread feeling that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system today, but that it is impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative”.

Precisely on the basis of this thought within the area that once had the function of bagging the plaster compare “Once we get to the top”. The chalk found by the artist inside abandoned bags was scattered on the hangar floor. The traces generated by crossing space in a completely random way reveal the human imprint; in the middle there is a ladder, which you can climb to avoid getting your feet dirty with chalk. The object in question, deprived of its original function, becomes a metaphor of ascension. Not leading anywhere, the user, once he reaches the top, finds himself forced to descend, to welcome the collapse.