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Serena Scapagnini

Projects

Saliency

La Memoria Cangiante

A series of large-scale artworks conceived in dialogue with the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale: a reflection on memory, retrieval, and perception.

Saliency

La Memoria Cangiante

A series of large-scale artworks conceived in dialogue with the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale: a reflection on memory, retrieval, and perception.

Synapses

Synapses is dedicated to the structure and shapes of the synaptic processes underlying memory. The project has been in development since 2012 in collaboration with the Higley Lab in the Department of Neuroscience at Yale University.

Superposition

Superposition is a cycle of works developed in dialogue with the Yale Quantum Institute. Through drawings, engravings, paintings and installations; it explores quantum superposition, the ability of a particle to exist in multiple states simultaneously, as a metaphor for identity, memory, and perception.

Superposition

Superposition is a cycle of works developed in dialogue with the Yale Quantum Institute. Through drawings, engravings, paintings and installations; it explores quantum superposition, the ability of a particle to exist in multiple states simultaneously, as a metaphor for identity, memory, and perception.

This project matured with the scientific support of the Yale School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

Fugacity

Fugacity draws inspiration from ten international stories, exploring the effects of Alzheimer’s, Lewy body dementia, and other forms of memory dissipative processes. This project matured with the scientific support of the Yale School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

THY FEARFUL SIMMETRY

A material exploration of sound waves and their latent architecture, utilizing assemblages of industrial speaker cones and branches. The series interrogates the connection between organic form and the generative force of sound frequency.

THY FEARFUL SIMMETRY

A material exploration of sound waves and their latent architecture, utilizing assemblages of industrial speaker cones and branches. The series interrogates the connection between organic form and the generative force of sound frequency.

SYRINX

Seven paper scrolls depict a bamboo forest using ink, oil, charcoal, pigment dust, and organic matter. Outstretched to give visual form to sound waves through a cymatic experience, the installation pays homage to the wind as an inner sound, reflecting wave phenomena where the essence of things is revealed as music.