Im-perfect
Balance Inspired by the vision of the game, the art of
circus performers, acrobats and theatre.The common thread is our time .… and for all the time,
over all our life , we are looking for a reference point, an interior steady point,
which helps us keep our own balance . On the thread running through every human
emotion, from fear to bewilderment, from joy to excitement but also our ordinary
daily life. It ‘s a moment that carelessness and vanity make us sink into our heavy gravity . The thread is
for sure the search for balance but above all for Knowledge , a deep knowledge of oneselves, of one’s own limits, desires
and then, through that part of ourselves
we share with others, the knowledge of other human Beings and eventually of the
Being as a whole; ultimately, for the deep balance ruling the Universe. Since
on the life thread we are alone. And it is this
human certainty of being fragile
which will make us more careful and able to dance almost with lightness ,
on this thin line hanging between the earth and the sky. A thread which
probably doesn’t represent a goal to aim at but, rather, it gives us the
pleasure to travel where the joy is along the way we walk, up to the end, till
the game is over.
Im-perfect Balance is
a multimedia installation created
in 2012, by Paola Ballesi, on behalf of
Macerata Carima Foundation in Fiatra Abbey in Tolentino. Inside the cloister 60
red iron sheet figures represent every aspect of our lives, passions…all in
im-perfect balance, precariously posed on a red thread. All, however, turning towards
the same direction. Two thousand metres of red thread braided along the porches
get to shape in the big canvas (mt 13x3)
the skyline of the Marches landscape. A
simple thread to outline it, nature is in im-perfect balance, too.
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