Warm hole throat
Spazio Volta, Bergamo, Italy

For this new episode of the Spazio Volta project, the former fountain of San Rocco hosts Gregorio Vignola. “Warm Hole Throat” is a site-specific intervention, developed through sculptural and installation productions designed for the place, which draws inspiration from the concept of the space-time bridge called "wormhole". The "wormhole", or Einstein-Rosen bridge, is a scientific term that corresponds to a gravitational tunnel where the interconnection between the parallel constants "Chronos" and "Spatium" is deformed. John Wheeler offers a vivid analogy by imagining the universe as an apple, populated, in fact, by a worm who, instead of traveling on the surface, decides to dig alternative routes that allow him to circumvent its rules. This tunnel is reimagined in the exhibition space starting from a central sculptural body that results in a video installation, surrounded by smaller sculptural entities. The space becomes a timeless organic machine, separated from movement of the historic square in front of it, and the coagulation of cables recalls a neural network, an abandoned archeology of an hardware. Playing with the phonemes of the title, the image of the tunnel is tinged with sexual and carnal resonances, evoked by the warmth of this scientific journey, that here is romantically renamed the “Warm-hole troath”.