L’ultra-distanza e l’epifenomeno della finitezza, tra distanza e Distanza

First the look and then the word, in this sense the width, the laterality and the distance lead to imagine a multitude of alternative horizons. Some distances are considerations that appear when one feels that ‘perceiving’ is a way of examining and questioning oneself with the eyes. Utopias support, says Paul-Michel Foucault, and that is what we can deduce from Marina Abramovic’s Iconic Artworks. The House with the Ocean View is a living public installation, a kind of domestic island that a seminal artist places in a subdivision of rooms. Twelve days in three raised rooms, two rooms and a service, it becomes the setting for an experiential and apocalyptic vision of a daily routine, with rules and restrictions. The impossibility of going out, the proxemic enclosure of a current lockdown, manifests itself in the vertical connections, ladders of knives, the analogies with a confined public existence.