N. Ward, “Illuminated Sanctuary of Empty Sins” – Arte all’Arte, 2001
Termoutilizzatore Sienambiente
Colle Val d’Elsa
In the typical Tuscan landscape there is all its obvious incongruity a high-tech incinerator. This is the place Nari Ward chose for his installation, a great usable sculpture on a ground that was a former covered landfill: it covers what remains of our consumes, of our needs and our desires that we won’t see anymore, that we wanted to cut away from the framework of our sight, even still knowing of their embarassing existence. This is a deep part of Nari Ward themes: what modern culture chooses to keep and what to throw away by its historical memory, what can be sacrified and how values and dignity can be reduced, what the toxicity of our consumes is.
Nari Ward’s piece consists of an alabaster half broken camper in a mess of ferrous residues of the incinerator. In the inside there is the Sanctuary. Teflon bags are on the walls, the sits are make by car tires. The semicircular altar is in wrought iron – together with the alabaster is an homage to local handicraft – on which there are a lot of red candles. The Sanctuary looks to East – West as a place of rest and reflection, a moral temple dedicated to mortality and its processes.
Fonte: http://www.arteallarte.org/
