Arkè
Variable size sculptures
2021
Socializing is reflecting yourself in the mirror of others.
The private practice of relationship we have with objects works in a similar way: we entrust them fragments of memory and identity that belong to us.
In that instant, they become simulacra.
From the moment we are born, we see everything united and we ensure that every existing entity is part of our private identity.
By transferring one's spirit into something, one remains modified by it as much as that something itself remains modified.
This attempt to internalize the external or to externalize oneself is an attempt at exchange that does not include either creation or, even less, destruction; just as the cast of an object does not create or destroy anything, but sets the shapes in symbiosis.
1- The child me is the primordial me.
2- Arkè is the archeology of myself.
3- Our truth is archaic and our archaicity is everlasting.
Manfredi Destro
