#orfeosilence

[fontepoe]

ORFEO'S SILENCE

site-specific installation

materials: wood, mirroring alluminium

2010 

One moment and Orpheus turned to Eurydice

Breaking the pact and losing her forever Has he ever been able to sing again afterwards? Or even to say a word? Has anyone heard again the sound of his lyre? Didn’t loss, grief, guilt, and the irreversibility of his action close his throat like a noose? And that end, with women cutting him in pieces and throwing his remains in the river… was it for his refusal to love them or for having denied them his divine voice? What remains today is his silence. A door. The idea of a limit to be crossed. No need to look behind But the urge to do so. The Sea and the Sky, the same authorities beyond time which witnessed the story of Orpheus are reflected on nine crystallized strings of a lyre. A mute instrument.