Maya by Rebecca Moccia tells stories of visibility and invisibility, exposure and ageing, membranes, transition, materials, and containers. In dialogue with an era defined by the instantaneous consumption of images and products, the works instead ask for patience, attention, and presence, evoking the material processes and the slow passage of time that shape labor and transformation.
The works were created by the artist in 2025 during her residency in Peschiera del Garda, overlaying photographic and video images with a dark amber glass known as “Maya”, the same type of glass used to preserve Zenato’s finest red wines.
Through exchanges of images with workers, Moccia focused on presences, a rhythm and the vital relationships that often remain unseen, just as the energies sustaining every process of transformation are invisible. From this awareness came the idea to create a series of juxtapositions — photography, video projections, sound, movement and dark glass.
Some works are framed in handcrafted steel structures that recall the tanks used to store wine; in others, the image and the glass are simply held together by metal hooks. These are accompanied by a video installation that directly evokes the place and the physical experience of labour during the harvest, when, at dawn, workers head towards the vineyards at the Tenuta S. Cristina. The video is also presented through projections onto a dark surface.
The installation’s sound, created by composer and sound artist Renato Grieco, is the results of a process that foregrounds the materiality of sound: a magnetic tape left exposed to sunlight for several days, undergoing physical transformation.
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