Final result of NAHR residency 2023 | artwork of Caffo and Pedrini
cabin in the woods in val taleggio
a strange common diary
video performance
In particular, Francesco Pedrini and Leonardo Caffo started with the idea of intercepting the wind. For this purpose, Pedrini has created a complex detection device: a discreet hut intended to be mounted in the forest, out of which a number of anemometers emerge. In the hut it is possible for a person to hide oneself and to leave traces of one’s presence on its walls in the form of drawings; but the project can also work without being inhabited. In fact, this mimetic observation point represents a metaphor for being receptive to our surroundings. Moreover, throughout the project process, Pedrini and Caffo took turns, mostly from a distance, in writing a common notebook. In a genuine expression of sympathy and empathy, the pages were filled with personal reflections, words, drawings and quotations. Just like the wind, which is an uncontrollable process, that has no objective, and thanks to which unpredictable things can happen, the notebook became a catalyst place of experiences, thoughts, feelings.
In a second phase of the project, the hut housed on its walls, in addition to the drawings already made, other signs and phrases taken from the notebook, and a video where the wind and the words from the notebook read by Leonardo Caffo will be fused. The title of the project, Lì (word which means <<there>> in Italian) refers to a phrase that Gilles Deleuze attributes to Proust in his Alphabet book under the letter V for voyage: Deleuze argues that traveling is useless except if, as Proust does, one considers the traveler in the same way as the dreamer: “the true dreamer is the one who goes to verify that the colour he has dreamt really exists, there”.
Leonardo Caffo™ 