From May 5 to 7, 2022, Emilio Ferro, invited by Projec_To, presents QUANTUM, a site- specific temporary installation conceived for Palazzo Martini di Cigala in Turin. Starting from the inner courtyard of the palace, built in the early eighteenth century, designed by the architect Filippo Juvarra, Ferro’s work runs through the beautiful baroque spaces of the building: from the outer courtyard, a beam of concentrated light breaks into the noble rooms, crossing what is the “positive” space included in Hartmann’s magnetic grid. Immediately after World War II, the German doctor Hartmann identified the dense mesh of energy nodes that convey on the surface of the earth a telluric radiation, consisting of bands or “invisible walls” about 21 cm wide arranged along the geomagnetic directions of the earth from North to South and from East to West. At the meeting points of these lines, the “H nodes”, the electromagnetic field tends to be stronger and therefore causes the so-called geopathies.

▼项目概览，General view

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QUANTUM is a work that dialogues with the space in opposition to these nodes, occupying the surface free from the electromagnetic mesh and promoting the balance of visitors who will stand under the horizontal beam of light. A journey “in positive” that contrasts with the verticality of Juvarra’s dark columns present on the ground floor of the building at two “H nodes”. The element of light thus creates a new dimensional level that transcends the polarity of opposites and ends its journey by projecting onto a large structure inside the Palace, generating a circle of light, the essential form of the sun, which radiates the surrounding environment with a suspended energy.

Dialogue between installation and space

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The light emitted by the installation contrasts with the vertical dark columns

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