torri e colonne di luce
Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, 2003
This was the third (3rd) venue for grace, installed here in the exhibition titled Torri e Colonne di Luce. The exhibition occupied three adjoining spaces of the Certosa di San Lorenzo, including the Cappella delle Donne, the only space with windows overlooking the street in front of the monastic complex. It included two other light works, a suite of photographs taken during the second venue where grace was exhibited at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia and an audio loop of the bilingual reading of poems from the book grace, per tutti i bambini, which accompanied the exhibition.
grace, was originally conceived as a formal work of light (a tower of light) meant to interact with another light work (green fluorescent light) by Dan Flavin permanently installed in the Hudson River Museum’s main skylight. As a result of the attacks by the extremist al-Qaeda militants on September 11, 2001, grace became a memorial to everyone who lost their lives that day: civilians, emergency personnel, un-documented workers and the 19 militants themselves - all victims of failed global policies and aggressions. At its base of the work the paper wreath contains all the names and could be taken away by visitors one-by-one.
some photographs © Arsenio Pandolfo – 2003