L38°11’13.32’N13°21, 4.44 E”
The work was born out of the artist’s interest in the Addaura cave complex in Sicily. Located on the northeastern slope of Monte Pellegrino (Palermo), these are home to cave etchings dating back 14,000 years, between the Late Epigravettian and Mesolithic eras. These are amongst the oldest cave etchings ever found, “a molecular mystery that we cannot understand, they are the map of mankind’s desire and a collective future worth remembering”.
Their mysterious and indecipherable nature frames these caves as a testament to the complex relationship between man and nature, manifested materially in the need to leave a trace of our own existence engraved into the landscape. The figures in the etchings, signs both ancient and recent, water sources and the naked life of stone are all intermingled in Trevisani’s images. The audio track that accompanies the video is nothing more than the ‘voice’ of the caves repeated so much that it becomes unrecognisable, in an homage to Alvin Lucier’s famous piece I Am Sitting In A Room.
Their mysterious and indecipherable nature frames these caves as a testament to the complex relationship between man and nature, manifested materially in the need to leave a trace of our own existence engraved into the landscape. The figures in the etchings, signs both ancient and recent, water sources and the naked life of stone are all intermingled in Trevisani’s images. The audio track that accompanies the video is nothing more than the ‘voice’ of the caves repeated so much that it becomes unrecognisable, in an homage to Alvin Lucier’s famous piece I Am Sitting In A Room.
