Percer-Voir

The project defined percer-voir consists on placing on the lake inside the Botanical Garden fourteen mate crystal glass points. The size for each point is 110 cm length and 13cm of base diameter. The points are fixed by a thin iron structure attached on point’s bases and inserted in a structure that stands on the bottom of the lake.

The installation is made by glass points “springing out of” earth or water. The natural light permeates the mate glass points giving them dynamism, shape and essence. As the observer eyes move around the installation space the rhythmic presence of the points is revealed.The linear projections of the crystal points continue in the space connecting earth/sky and creating a visionary mental scene of one environment crossed by light flows.

The environmental installation "Percer-Voir" is my first project that uses environmental interventions. The synergy created by placing (glass) “points” within the environment activates a vibration process by which visitors are deeply engaged, and through the experience stimulated to see in them an inner experience that transcends rationality.
The title Percer-Voir, from the French word for “perceive”, plays on the literal translation: to pierce - to see. The title encourages the physical and objective perception of the environment through a sequence of perforations (metaphorically, by the glass points) that stimulate an emotional and subjective perception, a greater understanding allowing us to see by piercing, lighting the depths of one’s own soul.

The installation piece, point or tip, could be considered as “archetype of the physical world, created by the spiritual forces and floating in the ethereal world”.
It would represent the spiritual energy by which the nature has been created and constantly is renewed and strengthened. It shows the existence of a potent and inexplicable reality, not visible to the sensible and superficial observation of the nature.
The project percer-voir of course doesn’t want to represent just this idea, it intends to facilitate the interior process that permits the observer to fuse his own personality with the natural environment. The aim of the installation project is to put the observer in an emotional state which allows him to transpose his spirit in the nature; a sort of empathy or unio mistica propeller of interior dynamics determining an acquiring of self-consciousness.

ANDREA MORUCCHIO