Light and Shadows in Modesteios School of Pisoderi
The work From Absence to Presence is an artistic activation of public space through a ritual of light and memory, attempting a poetic synthesis of the visible and the invisible and activating memory to be presence in both time and place.
The Modesteios School of Pisoderi, a building deeply connected to the history of Pisoderi and to the unseen narratives of the region becomes the carrier of a visual palimpsest: old photographs, family portraits, faces that were lost or forgotten return to the stage. The architectural façade becomes a landscape of memory.
Through the projection and the artistic strategies applied to the building’s surface, these faces are not simply made visible, they regain substance, a space in which to return. The illuminated portraits that summon memory generate new narratives and give new resonance to the past, while the building itself, as a field of memory and emotional connection, comes alive through the interplay of projected images and sound, creating a multisensory experience for the viewer. Through empathy and the activation of the senses, Pisoderi and Modesteios School are transformed into sites of testimony and embodied storytelling.
Technology here becomes a mode of embodied remembrance, an attempt to let time inhabit once again the places where the past left its fractures. The projection functions as a ritual invitation: to recall what never had the chance to become history. It is a poetic gesture of rewriting collective memory.
Light, transformed from a natural phenomenon into a vessel of remembrance, becomes an ally of presence. Ultimately, the work stands as a poetic act of illumination, an act that tends to the wounds of loss and renders the unseen visible.