Riflessioni Liquide

One drop falls, meets the surface, and disappears. Through water and light, this minimal gesture extends beyond its point of origin. Each impact generates a ripple that appears as a caustic image on a suspended screen, projecting each fall into the scale of the surrounding space. The work gives spatial form to a repeated gesture that reshapes the perception of the environment over time.

Conceived in response to the genocide in Palestine, the installation establishes a direct relation between number, duration, and loss. Over approximately six days, 67,000 drops fall one by one into the water at uninterrupted seven-second intervals, corresponding to the number of lives taken at the time the work was made. Each drop becomes a unit of meaning and loss.

Installed in an abandoned industrial site in Venice, one of the world’s most institutionalised cultural cities, the work deliberately occupies a place left outside institutional care. The drops fall in a site marked by neglect and silence, visible yet unsupported. The projected image enlarges the scale of the drop until it becomes unavoidable.