A plug-in is an add-on module that interacts with other programs offering a series of features that broaden the range originally offered. It is essentially an extension, something external that enhances the basic program.
It is precisely on this concept that the homonymous project, a work in progress, has its roots.
It is precisely on this concept that the homonymous project, a work in progress, has its roots.
This series of ephemeral installations can be considered physical plug-ins of a concrete space: an extension of those walls that used to divide the public from the private, the outside from the inside. An opening that allows these two spheres of life to communicate.
In a period in which being able to explore and understand what is foreign to us, what is far away, has become much more complex, one of the possibilities is to "import" a large amount of information into one's daily life, in order to analyze, rationalize and subsequently understand and process them.
Today the problems of the world can no longer be studied, analyzed and "solved" only in their singularity and specificity. To be truly understood, they must be related to everything that happens outside the single nation, the single party, one's own private sphere.
A dialogue is now necessary that encompasses and exploits multiplicities, to exploit them as a force and not as a reason for divisions.
“Plug In” seeks to interpret various issues such as isolation, loneliness, climate change (and to a certain extent also those that are the desires and incapacities of man) by embracing the characters of universality starting from the single constituent element.
This wildfires show us the universality of environmental disasters that happen all over the world with increasing frequency.
