TAVOLA DELL’IMPOSSIBILITA’
Fragments glued on rosaspina paper, 2020
©Giulio Favotto, Tavola dell’Impossibilità, Alice Ahad, 2020
The storage of the changes and effects of time in an object is an impossible task in the present because it requires the enjoyment of the same thing in a temporal simultaneity.
That is to say, the ability to experience the same object in three different temporal dimensions, which is impossible for matter itself and, above all, for the human being who lives and depends on a single temporality, the time of the present. Apparently, each of these examples is the temporal manifestation of the same subject through the passage of time, but in reality it is only a perceptual illusion because the fragments are not part of the same subject.
The table is divided into rows and columns that intersect to form boxes, each of which contains a fragment belonging to a different period, staging an archival act that is supposed to demonstrate the documentation of the same subject in different periods.
At first glance, the six subjects appear to be the same subject that has passed through time, or rather through different intervals of its deco-transformation, until you get to the rightmost box, which is supposed to show us its current state: the present. But that’s not the case. Obviously, these are all different subjects, albeit similar, and each subject is altered by the influence of its own temporal universe.
©Giulio Favotto, Tavola dell’Impossibilità, Alice Ahad, 2020
This table of impossibility shows their impossible mission especially in the fallacy of the linguistic name itself of the subjects in each cell. A flower becomes a petal, a fragment of a petal, a stem, but they are all parts of a flower. Although they are always a part of that flower, which is no longer that flower, but, for example, the discovery of a stem.
Each of them, according to its decomposed stage, we call it by different names or definitions. Matter, or what is transformable, cannot be stored, either in an archive, or in a photograph, or in a name or a definition. No medium can document the evolution of change in a single period of use.
Tavola dell’Impossibilità, Alice Ahad, 2020