ARCHIVE
Drawings on paper
Metal
Variable size structure
archive variable dimensions Hicetnunc 2005 San Vito al Tagliamento Elena Armellini
In a time when matter seems to dissolve into the virtual, Archive seeks to restore weight, texture, and silence to things.
Transparent crystals and opaque stones—real or evoked—become signs of a geological and inner knowledge, where each fragment holds time like a fossil lens.
The installation unfolds through two complementary gestures.
In the first, drawings are accumulated like bundles, as if samples gathered during forgotten journeys. They are layered on the wall, mapping an unstable matter, a visual archive of shining or matte forms, smoothed or fractured. An intuitive atlas, where the north is traced by the way light refracts.
In the second gesture, drawings are perforated and stacked on sharp metal spikes, like archived files or exhausted documents. Here, the archive becomes anatomical: cut, pierced, piled up. It is an inquiry into the body of the sign, the end of its function, and its survival as relic or debris.
Archive is both a material and mental space, where each form retains a temperature, a vibration, an echo.
There is no system: only gathering.
There is no catalog: only time.