A DREAM IN STONE - THE ARTWORKS

Sedition is delighted to release A Dream in Stone, Francesca Fini's stunning new project that turns the amazing Renaissance frescoes of the Medieval castle, the Rocca Sinibalda Castle near Rome, into a cutting-edge digital art collection. A Dream in Stone is a special collection born from Fini's residency in this historic castle. The collection is made up of 8 video artworks, each inspired by a key SciFi theme: Earth after humanity disappears.

VIDEO 1 - The Planet

This is the very first video of the collection, the one that opens our journey. The slow sequence shot of a virtual handheld camera guides us to the discovery of the exoplanet where an alien intelligence has collected all the relics and memories of Humanity.
But, unlike in the classic iconography of science fiction stories, we don't land from above. We emerge from below. We rise from the dark depths of the planet, transformed into the messy warehouses of a lost civilization, to discover this story within history.
What year are we in? Where are we now? What happened to our home, Planet Earth? We wonder and wander, while the viewfinder of our drone-shaped eyes glimpses the precious fragments of a fresco kept in a magical cubic case, and bizarre machinery bearing the faces of ancient divinities.
The question is idle since this journey from below is the journey of the unconscious and the dream.

VIDEO 2 - The Red Mask

In the second video of the collection, I tell the myth of Proserpina, one of the most beautiful representations by Girolamo Muziano, standing out in the room of the Metamorphoses at Rocca Sinibalda Castle.
The young kidnapped Proserpina encloses in her mystery the sacred amazement of men at the alternation of the seasons, in the ferocious and relentless rhythm of nature that devours and renews itself.
Autumn and Spring, Winter and Summer, Old Age and Youth, Death and Life are sides of the same coin. In this video, the eternally spinning medal on which our lives hang, has the shape of a red mask, melting in front of us in a clot of red blood, soft and elastic like a cloth. A cloth that unravels, falls, bounces, and comes back.
Everything is consumed and everything is reborn, in the eternal return which is the very essence of metamorphosis.

VIDEO 3 - The Motherboard

The journey to an artificial alien planet, where an alien intelligence collected and stored the memories and relics of Humanity, takes us to the operational center of the Macrostructure.
We visit the Central Computer Area. I created this scenario using a 3D elaboration of one of the facades of the great courtyard of the Castle. Shining ribbons depart from the stone walls, conveying digital information to and from the heart of the structure.
The Castle repeats itself and multiplies, reflected in the water mirror of its underground cistern. We are now crossing a large portal guarded by Minerva, standing out in one of the fake bas-reliefs painted by Girolamo Muziano.
Emerging from the deep water is the Motherboard, crossed by iconic metamorphoses: the Winged Victory (Fire), a tree (Earth), a luminous marine wave (Water), and the mutilated statue of Venus, mapped with a serene Renaissance sky (Wind).
The Motherboard holds an egg in her wombs, and Minerva is reflected in the shiny egg, visually affirming her dual role of protector and protected. As well as the inhabitants of the Castle, simultaneously guarded and guardians of Time.

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