Eraclito - everything flows investigates on the connection between the city of Rome and the symbolic element of water, considered with its relationship with art and power.
Moving from this inspiration, the project is presented as a new fountain in the square of MAXXI, able to flow and generate a new imaginary for the place, loading the public realm with new narratives and meanings.
Key point of inspiration for the installation YAP 2016 the city of Rome and the infrastructure - ancient as well as recent - of its close link with water.
Following the link between water and the city, along the lines of the aqueducts, the contemporary Rome reveals a place that acts as a paradigm: Lake Ex-Snia.
Since 1992 Rome has a new lake, its water and depth could be good for swimming, but its soil is not accessible as it’s still bounded by the working site fences. Reinforced concrete frames, of an unfinished building, are its background and have become ruins before being completed.
Since 1992 Rome has a new lake, its water and depth could be good for swimming, but its soil is not accessible as it’s still bounded by the working site fences. Reinforced concrete frames of an unfinished building are its background and have become ruins before being completed.
The lake Ex-SNIA is on the aqueduct line Acque Vergini (virgin water), the same water that feeds the fountains of the monumental center of Rome and is also the same water flowing in the main public spaces of the city.
Eraclito is a displacement, which creates a physical and mental connection between the monumental water-streams of Rome and those of the Ex-Snia Lake. The main elements of the lake are transferred in the square at MAXXI: these elements make the lake accessible - as an analogic abstraction - to the public experience.
The displacement occurs through the importation of the key elements of the Ex-Snia lake scenario, and their adaptation to the square at Maxxi. Here the lake becomes a contemporary fountain.
Eraclito is a piece that acts on the mind of the public: the role of physical elements is to produce an
