“Corpo Morto ” is the work produced for the exhibition “Sta come Torre”, that questions the perspective and vision that can be seen from the privileged position that the towers of the Apulian coast offer. The artist chooses this perspective to throw an anchor, an anchoring, a “dead body” into the sea (a marine term that indicates a heavy object used as an anchor on the bottom of a buoy or a footbridge). A gesture, a physical and symbolic effort that of throwing, and throwing oneself. An aspect of courage: of the courage to dive and cross the sea. This is the gesture at the center of Corpo morto: to place something
at the bottom of the sea that becomes a secure point of support and at the same time requires a movement of anchoring. Linguistic implications recalled by seafaring terms. Body-dead highlights with the weight of the concrete (of which in reality it is mainly made up, heavy and cheap) the presence of many dead bodies in the seas. An-Courage – another possible way to read the Italian word anchoring – emphasizes in this case the action of jumping, the courage to approach, dock, and reach the mainland.