“Abitare” (To Live In)
Italian Street Artist and urban interventionist Gola Hundun is often thinking about the idea of coexistence and cohabitation between humans and the rest of the natural world. He often looks for that delineation on which to create new art.
Naturally it is performed with a flourish of theatricality.
Gola Hundun. “Abitare”. Rimini, Italy. 2018. (photo © Tommaso Campana)
“I consider these places to be sort of a temple or a monument that speaks about the frontier between human space and the natural one,” he says of this abandoned industrial carcass that is returning back to the earth somewhere around Rimini, Italy.
Here he interacts with the ruins – a formerly useful construction of humans that behaved as if it was not part of nature, possibly in an open attack of nature. Now it looks as if he is introducing it back to the ecosystem it stood amongst and apart from.
Gola Hundun. “Abitare”. Rimini, Italy. 2018. (photo © Tommaso Campana)
“Today it’s clear that human behavior (especially Western humans) that sees us like the dominant species of the world who can manage all resources for our own development and not consider the rest of biosphere – these behaviors have brought the planet on the brink of an Eco-disaster,” he says.
So it is here at the scene of the crime that the forensic detective converts to holy healer, interacting with the ruins and blessing it as it convenes a unique and slow transformation.
This abandoned location is a place where spontaneous growth is happening already,” he tells us. “These places for me are a ready made work of art where I introduce my glorifying theme, trying to bring to light their intrinsic holy aura.”
Gola Hundun. “Abitare”. Rimini, Italy. 2018. (photo © Tommaso Campana)
Gola Hundun. “Abitare”. Rimini, Italy. 2018. (photo © Johanna Invrea)
Gola Hundun. “Abitare”. Rimini, Italy. 2018. (photo © Johanna Invrea)
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