FUTURO ANTERIORE
Installations, dust sculpture, 2020
The Futuro Anteriore or Futuro Composto is a tense that denotes events, experiences and facts that are considered to have happened, but are in the context of the future or uncertainty.
The Futuro Anteriore project moves between presence and absence, between the present and the possible future, between physically tangible forms at the phenomenological level and their projection into the present with a given linguistic name. And yet, it is also a contrast between the layer of expression and the layer of content, between the figurative and the plastic. It goes further, these tensions due to the materiality used: Dust, which is usually associated with finitude, but here manifests its opposite, life. The passing of time is a perception that articulates the plane of the sensitive into moments, developments and divides them into linguistic categories and nouns. Here, the forms are a temporal synesthesia, a short-circuit between phenomena and its own substance.
The installation is designed to represent a still life manifested in an “advanced stage”. All the elements show they are alive and that they are free from the formal and nominal film, which could formally and perceptively petrify them. The film of immobility, of fixed temporality, of form, is here put on hold, and the table is no longer the representation of a still life. The table tells about a nature that is more than living. Dust is a place of life, an active microcosm of organisms that constantly mobilise and activate the form itself. These elements have no fixed form, no noun category.
In fact seeing, perceiving and naming are problems related to the observation scale. Dust lives silently in the subsoil of the world, feeding on everything and everyone. It gives each element present a chance to take shape, for an interval of time, which in an unexpected moment will recover in its accumulation, where the elements turn in the whole and in the potential.
© Giulio Favotto, 2020