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critical text by Alessandra Corsi and Valentina Santangelo
Davide Dax Pagani has been an artist since his teens, creating installations and following in the course of his production a personal conceptual development that has lead him to formulate a theory that he defines “ archaeology of the future”. It is based on the recycling of materials of various kinds, which he finds, gathers and classifies. In this way, the artist de-contextualizes these objects, depriving them of their ordinary meaning and value. To some extent, he wants to shock the viewers, by offering them works which come from an hypothetical second future generation, itself already extinct. He is not interested in giving answers or personal interpretations, what he wants is to make questions which he leaves intentionally open and free.
He prefers to work at night, when inspiration becomes stronger. He creates preparatory sketches and starts picking out the different materials. Thus, he can begin handling the objects to his pleasure, without a prearranged procedure and without using the same technique over and over. He is free to glue, to weld, to sellotape…he can do what he likes! The work "Settlement" is a sort of glimpse into a possible "disastrophic" future. The installation is preceded by two panels introducing the viewers in a family context of the future. Its members had found refuge by creating a hearth for themselves in a cosy and intimate shelter belonging to the past. Different elements are assembled, some are suspended to create a wall of ambiguous taste, while the carcasses of two armchairs represent the modern lack of values and meanings.
