Studio Gianluca Iadema

Gianluca Iadema

un_i[n]verso - audiovisual works

This series consist of eight audiovisual works which explore each individual scene of un_i[n]verso – audiovisual sculpture.

COMMISIONED by

Various Collections

Category

Audiovisual

Specifics

2ch sound, 1ch video

Years of creation

2022 – 2024

Each scene is independent, as if it were a complex organism part of a larger system. All the works are constructed in such a way that the conceptual, dramaturgical, formal, technical, aesthetic and meta-levels not only interpenetrate but blend together, revealing a truth through experience and metaphor. The narrative does not present any human form, but it is implicit in the story. It is the viewer who is the subject and at the same time the observer of the work. The works reveal themselves not only as an immersive experience due to its technical construction, but also due to the viewer’s position in the story. More specifically, it begins with the landing of an alien form on an imaginary earth that slowly turns from digital to concrete. The design of the entire work becomes the staging of a laboratory of investigation, a stage that is slowly moulded, deconstructed and redesigned to ultimately reveal the contradictions, premises and dark sides of the human. A meta level that rises to Hans Blumenberg’s concept “shipwreck with spectator”, in which man’s attitude towards life and history is reflected: the need for security and the taste for risk, extraneousness and involvement, contemplation and action. The viewer, however, at the end becomes shipwrecked, with alien spectator.