A breeze is a current of air that passes through a narrow opening.
It is something ephemeral.
Something that vanishes in a few seconds.
It is intangible.
Intangible as the presence of a person who is physically no longer there.
Intangible as a spirit.
Whether a breeze, or the presence of an absence, or a spirit, however intangible, will always
remain perceptible.
These twelve posters present us with termographs, thermal images that reveal details usually invisible to the human eye.
A thermal camera is an instrument that detects thermal radiation emitted by a body and transforms it into thermographs, images reconstructed from the heat data detected by the device.
So this technology allows us to see through inputs that we usually feel on our skin.
It walks hand in hand with sight and touch, it stands between the two.
With this project I wanted to allow the spectator to see beyond the surface layer.
Narrating a silent story by bringing the visible into dialogue with the invisible.
Inviting the viewer to reflect on the present absence of those who have passed, and on the perpetual passing of time.
Cemeteries here become a limbo, in which life and death dialogue.
After all, maybe, cemeteries are a transition zone, no?
It was used a scientific medium to have a rational approach,in a research that rational is not.To arrive at an objectivity in a quest that is spiritual.
In this work you can find many oxymoron:
Life-death
Real-oniric
Science-spirituality
Technology-humanity
This project was born out of an extensive and diverse research on the theme of absence.
Theme that generate an infinite number of questions, but which is not fertile with answers.
About Asia:
Asia Niero, 2002 Treviso, is multimedia arts student based in Florence.
She began her journey in the art world at the age of sixteen, with a purely plastic-sculptural grounding. There will be traces of this in each of her artistic works, no matter what the medium is. Asia has recently focused her artistic production on photography and video.
With these medias and their manipulation she brings the viewer into the position of seeing through her eyes. In her work one can see how she focuses on details and framings, sometimes making it difficult to understand the context.
