Damon Zucconi

Lithromantic
Veda, Florence, IT


February 14 - March 28, 2020
installation view, Lithromantic, Veda, Florence

One might enjoy being in romantic relationships, but only theoretically: a lithromantic — from the Greek lithos meaning stone.

“The whole ubicomp environment, dust-sized chips, and utility fog and hazy clouds of diamond-bright optical processors in the soil and the air and her skin.” — Charles Stross in Accelerando

“You could very realistically imagine uploading into it,” he said, “and then you’d be this sort of formless data amoeba controlling this formless physical amoeba and take any size or form you wanted.” — J. Storrs Hall in conversation with G. Dvorsky; Why “utility fogs” could be the technology that changes the world

The main exhibition space acts as a plenum generated by fog and light which occupy the volume — a kind of sculptural casting. Storefront windows generally represent a place of potential or suspended desire; here, through Zucconi’s intervention, the front window suspends the relation of reciprocity within the viewers and the exhibition space.

In the backroom of the gallery, two prints and a mirror are installed.

The prints have been realized using custom so ware which interlaces images without changes in opacity. The process weaves the images together into a new whole: a ghostly apparition of a totality; seeing everything at once.

A portrait-oriented mirror — the dimensions of which are su cient to encompass a human torso — has a hole punched out of it where one’s head might appear. This echoes a common horror trope: the decoupling of one’s mirror image with one’s body; a missing re ection. As we continue to move the void remains still.

My Attraction May Fade but I Will Not, 2020
fog
dimensions variable
My Attraction May Fade but I Will Not, 2020
fog
dimensions variable
installation view, Lithromantic, Veda, Florence
Lithromantic, 2020
cut mirror
26 x 39 in
99 x 66 cm
ckalleviinn, 2020
UV curing ink on aluminium dibond
18 x 24 in
45.5 x 61 cm
installation view, Lithromantic, Veda, Florence
dviisstiaonnt, 2020
UV curing ink on aluminium dibond
72 x 60 in
183 x 152.5 cm
installation view, Lithromantic, Veda, Florence
Platonic Rose, 2020
UV curing ink on aluminium dibond
11 x 8.5 in
28 x 21.5 cm