The urgency of this intervention, titled Unstable Light, stems from the need to visualize the invisible threads of collective agency within the rural landscape of Provence. This voice is activated from a "transdisciplinary terrain" where architecture and art converge to address the fragility of social bonds in a hyper-mediated world. By situating the work in France, the project addresses the necessity of a "cultural ecology" that resists rigid structures through constant mutation. It is a response to the "distributed agency" of our time, creating a mode of attention that focuses on the symbiotic relationship between people and their environment. This piece serves as a friction point against social isolation, using light as a tactile medium to weave together diverse cultural backgrounds—from Iran to Italy and Croatia—into a single, resilient social fabric. The core device of Unstable Light is a "Light Social Sculpture," a physical net of translucent material that behaves as a metabolic filter for the human body. The process involves the collective entanglement of multiple artists who use the net to bridge the gap between individual presence and symbolic projection. Operationally, the work unfolds through the tactile manipulation of this light-sensitive mesh, which is worn, stretched, and shared among participants. This is not a symbolic gesture but a functional system of "socioplastics"—the net acts as a material logic for interaction, sequencing the movements of the artists into a unified, mutating form. The process is documented through video and photography, capturing the unstable nature of the light as it interacts with the textures of the skin and the Mediterranean landscape.
FILM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBwJV5Rmesk
This intervention establishes a light conceptual scaffolding by integrating the "Social Sculpture" legacy of Joseph Beuys with contemporary theories of "vibrant matter" and "media drift". By framing the work as a "transdisciplinary terrain," it avoids deep theoretical exposition in favor of a practical inquiry into "socioplastics". The piece situates itself within the problematic of how to maintain "sustainable coexistence" in a world of political and social fragmentation. It asks how a simple material—a net—can become a technological and social tool for "collective, transformative dialogue". The presence of artists like Ahmed Vakili and Claudio Foradori highlights the work’s relevance to broader questions of multilateralism and human rights, positioning the sculpture as a peaceful transformer of conflict.
The work mutates and scales across different media and territorial contexts, moving from the physical "Six Fours les Plages" in Provence to the digital "joint brain" of the internet. As a mobile-first project, it drifts from a tactile experience in France to a video document accessible via YouTube, allowing the "social sculpture" to infect new social networks. This trajectory ensures that the work does not remain a static object but a "process-based investigation" that adapts to its surroundings. Whether placed in an urban center or a rural retreat, the project re-situates the body within a "cultural ecology" that values adaptability and resilience. Verbs of transformation—weaving, drifting, and scaling—define its behavior as it bridges the gap between the local Mediterranean context and a global digital audience.
Ultimately, Unstable Light serves as an operative opening for future interventions that treat the "social" as a plastic, workable material. Rather than providing a conclusion, it asks: what new configurations of human rights and culture become possible when we visualize our interconnectedness? This curatorial launchpad suggests a shift in attention toward "socioplastics" as a method for reshaping communities and resisting the homogenizing effects of social exclusion. It leaves the door open to new "interstitial" practices where the artist and the citizen participate in a continuous state of mutation. The project proposes that by embracing the "unstable" and the "transitory," we can foster a deeper understanding of the symbiotic relationship between people, place, and memory, ensuring a more inclusive and respectful society.
SOCIOPLASTICS
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/light-sculpture-provence-2014.html
