Fabula

2023
Fabula is a permanent sound and sculptural installation created for a wooded area of ​​the Serpone Foundation in Torrita Tiberina (Rome).
The artist gives voice to centuries-old cypresses and lime trees through a multi-channel sound device. Visitors become protagonists of the work by walking through it and thus immersing themselves in a forest transformed into an initiatory path where the plant world relates to the human, animal and mineral worlds. Going beyond the very idea of ​​species towards an interspecific sociality. In plant intelligence the root corresponds to what the brain is in animals and the soil, the underground reality, is a space of spiritual communication. Thanks to the roots, plants simultaneously inhabit two environments that are completely different in consistency and structure, organization and nature of the life that lives there: the earth and the sky.

Fabula is an alchemical tale dedicated to the memory of Roberto Masotti (1947-2022).

“In order for me to enter the forest, the forest must enter me”
– John Cage

“Many stories begin with getting lost in the forest”
– Laurie Anderson