06/12/2025
sound installation and concert
Francesco Cavaliere
Body0 XILEMA Abyssal Creatures
- Body0 XILEMA Abyssal Creatures is a project by Francesco Cavaliere that materializes a fantasy narrative about a group of creatures and develops in a new saga inspired by the images of the marine flora of the abyss, hybridized with archetypal figures of the human unconscious.
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- These creatures, coagulated on glass in the form of sound sculptures designed with the Murano glassblowing masters, are beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances. The sinusoidal waves radiate into the sculptures, insinuating themselves and reflecting in their multiple cavities (antennas, simple convex organs), providing a more or less complex audible mass that entices the listener to enter inside.
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The prototype sculpture in transparent crystal with the iridescent head Phalaminàsh0, aka Corp0 (or Body0) stating its dynastic nomenclatures, is the firstborn of this animal ensemble. For the second time this sculpture it is activated by the support of two XILEMA glass horns, the first glass works created by Cavaliere with a Thaiwanese glass master in Berlin in 2014.
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- The combination of Body0 and Xilema gives life to a new transparent chimeric ensemble, installed and played by Cavaliere (voice, glass, microspeakers, laptop) between story-telling and the magic of sound. An opportunity to look out onto this artist’s ethereal and fluctuating universe, suspended between alchemy and science-fiction, which relocates knowledge about matter and nature - from botany to crystallography - in a poetic dimension, which goes beyond measured thought.
- Abyssal Creatures it is a project, curated by Xing and supported by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (2023).
- Francesco Cavaliere
- is a visual artist, writer and sound producer born in Tuscany, Italy, in 1980. He lives and works between Berlin and Turin. His works are capable of enlivening his listeners' inner states through a polymorphic activity that combines writing, sound, voice, drawing, sculpture, which together stimulate the imagination, undertaking long journeys crossed by ephemeral presences. He writes sound stories and music based on particles of sound, noise and language, often integrated with installation and scenographic elements or live performance, showing a particular taste for the most diverse forms of exoticism. Over the years he has developed a veritable dictionary to catalogue the metamorphic beings that inhabit his own abstract fantasy universe: hybrids of objects, animals, plants, planets, trails, cosmic objects and physical and perceptual phenomena generated by glass, minerals and voices, recorded and performed with analog technologies. I am a talking scribe ... my voice is a cloud, my pen hisses.
- He has collaborated with the Serralves Foundation Contemporary Art Museum in Porto, the MANN in Naples, Una Boccata d’Arte, Umbria, Italy, Liverpool Biennale, Riboca1, MAXXI L’Aquila, Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, XING, Bologna, INFRA Festival in Tokyo, BOZAR in Brussels, ISSUE Project Room in New York, Empty Gallery in Hong Kong. His works are part of the permanent collections of MAR Art Museum of the City of Ravenna and GAM, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin.
