Tales of the floating world, 2019

light makes the tenebrous world more transparent

Tales of the Floating World, 2019 by Michele Ciacciofera (b. 1969 in Sardinia, lives in Paris) is made up of ten polychrome glass sculptures set on three metal structures designed by the artist.
These sculptures made at the Seguso Studio in Murano are conceived as fragments from another world, which evokes by their organic forms, both the human and plant world, mineral as well as animal. These works are part of the artist’s research on a formal ambiguity between the different kingdoms in the context of current theories of « infra-vies »(1) and global collapse. It continues the artist’s reflection on temporal questions, where the hypothesis of a collapse of global civilization modifies or even subverts the relationship between the present and the past, where the end seems to merge with the origin.

All the sculptures are made at Seguso Vetri d’Arte 1397 – Murano

(1) in French in the text after Le vivant sans frontières by Thomas Heams-Ogus