Passagagli
UHD video installation
Built upon a passacaglia by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Bernardo Storace, Passagagli explores the gradual emergence of visual complexity from the obsessive repetition of simple elements. As in the music, the work unfolds through a continuous process of variation, where subtle transformations progressively reshape the viewer's perception.
Created for ultra-high-definition projection or display, the video exploits the tension between extreme detail and deliberate softness. Photographic fragments drawn from the urban landscape slowly accumulate, overlap and dissolve, producing an image that appears simultaneously tactile and immaterial. Rather than presenting a sequence of events, the work invites the spectator to experience an uninterrupted process of visual metamorphosis.
The rhythm of the images follows the expressive trajectory of Storace's passacaglia. What begins as a restrained succession of visual gestures gradually develops into a sustained crescendo, mirroring the music's increasing emotional intensity. Through repetition and continuous transformation, the work gradually draws the viewer into an increasingly immersive perceptual experience.