Tabula Rasa, Installation
Black & White – Awareness between Hell and Heaven, Performance.
Tabula Rasa, Installation
The work represents the continuous attempt, and thus the perennial change, to define the human being. It takes up the concepts of 'reprogramming’ and the Tabula Rasa – the wax tablets that in ancient Rome could be erased from previous writings in order to write on them again – as a metaphor for inner changes and the possibilities that each of us possesses to rewrite our own destiny, our own personal history and identity.
Black & White – Awareness between Hell and Heaven, Performance.
Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. A world where the opposite becomes complementary and necessary.
A reference to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy where Inferno represents – nothingness, disorder, chaos, death, black, static, closed and Paradise represents – full, order, white, life, dynamic open.
Entering the darkness “Hell” of the abyss of moral and intellectual perdition to ascend to “Paradise” where ‘love moves the stars’.
Opposites are spoken of in ancient Chinese philosophy where Yin and Yang are a symbol of harmony and balance. Yin-black and yang-white are also two equal halves. In each half, the potential of the respective opposite is present.
The performance White and Black was performed by Katarzyna Bak and Giogia Fileni and presented at the event entitled 'Between Hell and Paradise XX/21. Agnani remembers himself in Dante. Edited by Michele Citro. The photos were taken by Luciano Grasso.