Studio Gianluca Iadema

from, maybe to: prelude

Prelude is an audiovisual work that is part of the project from, maybe To. It conveys the story behind the entire project in the form of a short film, exploring the piano as an unknown repository of memories. The aim is to fictionally investigate the function of this object, ultimately discovering that it is a machine designed to store people’s memories.

Category

audiovisual

Specifics

1ch video, 2ch sound, 5’50” minutes

Years of creation

2024

The entire narrative begins with a video in which a photogrammetry of a piano explodes, transforming the instrument into a space for exploration. What was external becomes internal, and vice versa, creating an “absolute” object that floats in another dimension. The piano morphs into an abstract landscape, revealing traces of architecture on its surface, recalled by the digital drawings that belong to the same project. At this point, the point cloud slowly reassembles, gradually taking on more three-dimensional forms. It’s as if a distant gaze is trying to understand what it is and eventually realizes that all these components need to reconstitute themselves into a sculpture, without knowing what a piano is. In the end, it is revealed that these structures turn out to be machines designed to store people’s memories.