2025

Site-specific light art installation / Macerata

Realized during Nuove Visioni Digitali Residency / 05-20.07.2025

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The work unfolds in the third basin of the Fonte, under the portico. Glimmers of light are visible from the street, inviting passersby to cross the garden and draw closer. As they approach, projections reveal sentences reverberating within the fountain’s architecture — appearing on the water’s surface, on the pool’s bottom, on the surrounding walls, and in shimmering reflections that at times dissolve into abstraction.

The projected words and expressions revolve around the notion of the “source,” repeating like an incantation in rhythm with the constant sound of falling water. The title, tornare alla fonte (literally, “to go back to the source”), evokes both the physical act of moving toward the architecture and the metaphorical search for origins — here, alluding to the city’s ongoing efforts to restore these ancient fountains, once central to urban life but now relegated to its margins. The installation seeks to reactivate the site, engaging with its history and layers of meaning through light.

Project by Martina Stella

Produced by PlayMarche

Sound design: Amadeo Savio

Video recordings: Fabio Grillo