Projects from Sara Poli
name
Sara Poli (eldwing)
location
country
italy
university
Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia
department
Graphic Design
university address
dorsoduro 2206
30123 venice
university country
italy
url
id
0009190
title
Aleph
group members
Silvia Cervellin, Matteo Ferraro, Margherita Rubini
professor(s)
Leonardo Sonnoli
rank
1617
tags
year of making
2008
uploaded
2010-02-14 18:18:46
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Aleph: the project and the realization
Aleph was designed for the course held by Leonardo Sonnoli at IUAV University of Venice. Its aim was to design a typographic installation site specific that conveys the mood of a piece of literature.
We worked on the story “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges.
The Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion or confusion.
We set our interpretation of “The Aleph” in the inner yard of Museo Fortuny, a Venetian-Gothic Palace that has unique oneiric atmospheres.
Playing with the law of perspective, we focused on the dichotomy between chaos/order and contemporary/consequent.
As you walk in the inner yard of Museo Fortuny you can see white letters of different size, placed apparently randomly, standing out in the dark background. But as you move forward you realize that there is a sense that you can get only in one specific point, from which you can read the correct sentence: the Aleph.
