Project Info
The idea of this project aims at bringing together the innumerable fountains of Rome with Galileo's Telescope.
Galileo's observations of the solar system radically changed our perception of the world. Next to the fact that he managed to prove that it is the Earth orbiting around the Sun ( and not the opposite as the ptolemaic system suggested) a radical change after Galileo, was that the Earth is no longer perceived as our Cosmos _ our world_ but as simply another planet orbiting in the universe. After Galileo, the Earth has been observed and approached as an object, an approach that often led to the loss of respect towards our natural environment. We are now facing the critical consequences of this approach, through long periods of drought and dramatic wildfires.
Galileo's Fountain Installation derives from the idea that if people had the opportunity to look at the Earth - the planet of water- through Galileo's telescope, they would most probably see a round shape of water. That is, one of the innumerable fountains of Rome. The Installation presented a round and transparent drawing of water reflections, hanging loose in a dark space.
The light design of the installation created light reflections on the floor where a glass mosaic was created following the shadows of the drawing. At the wall, aluminum paper stripes moved as the visitors wandered around the work, creating a light reflections and a soft soundscape of celestial water flow.