Desolation

The painting is the last one of my BFA final project. It is certainly the one that most impressed me from an emotional point of view, but also the one that best represents the intent of the entire project on the shipwreck: it is the representation of what happens to what is left to drift. In this pool the walls are peeling, the paint falls like snow, no one enjoys the pleasure of swimming or the bright colors of the walls anymore: the pool is now forgotten and the times when color, noise, heat and movement enlivened its environments are lost in the past. With this work I have tried to focus on the inexorable effects of the flow of time: no one has deliberately damaged the structure, it collapsed by itself, a victim of immobility and abandonment that have devastated it. This happens with any building or human construction, but in a subtler way also with dreams that we forget over the years: of all the hopes of youth, time does not succeed in erasing everything but certainly deforms the memories so that after years a certain idea or project is nothing but a simulacrum. The painting therefore tries to be a sort of anticipation of the physiological deformation that my memory of the years spent attending swimming pools could undergo if the future will lead me to make different choices: in this scene, motionless in the middle of the little dirty water left in the pool, a rescue tube supports a mannequin – but it is now a useless, because there is nothing left to save.