Writing, image and representation of the body were the focus of the video work by the auroraMeccanica collective for AGO, a project with FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive.

The visual installation took inspiration from the future of this space which will host various cultural institutes, collections and digital projects. The artistic reworking in fact takes its cue from the finds of the Anatomical Museums of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, from the collections of the Figurine Museum and from the manuscripts digitized on the Lodovico Platform – the Digital Library of the DHMoRe – reinterpreted by a digital artist, a calligrapher and four performers.

Through three acts, aroraMeccanica investigated the process of determining the body in the contemporary world

The discovery of the body
Writing images
The redefinition of the body

In the first act, the calligrapher’s gestures retrace the history of writing, from tattoos to algorithms and reveal, through the light of video projections, the tense bodies of the performers.

In the second act the digitized texts of the Lodovico Platform and the decompositions of forms obtained from works of the Figurine Museum dance following trajectories and rhythms dictated by an image analysis algorithm.

In the third act, the finds from the Anatomy Museum are the starting point for an abstract representation of the disintegration of the body’s forms, obtained from the three-dimensional analyzes of the finds themselves.