Head in the clouds

LOCI (Wolfgang Gruber, Herwig Pichler, Allegra Stucki, Jaco Trebo)

The work condemns the incorrect use of our available resources. Water is a common good which is vital to sustain life. Yet in the West, we’ve been taking it for granted. The work is a cloud which plays on the idiom “head in the clouds”. It refers to being able to dream of a better world, but also refers to the forgetfulness and lack of awareness many people have towards the climate crisis and the use and redistribution of resources. The installation is fed with water from the upper basin of Rifugio Lavarella’s hydroelectric power station and flows naturally, without the use of electric pumps, into the the complex Fanes water network.
The atomization of water comes from the natural pressure generated along the elevation difference between the reservoir of the hydropower plant and the installation.

The work was realized thanks to the technical support of NETAFIM™ Italia (www.netafim.it), Isifer (www.isifer.it), eng. Alex Balzarini and Georg Trebo.

Exhibit place Fanes

Welcome to the legendary Kingdom of Fanes. Ladin legends – liëndes – are bountiful, and, just like Ladin itself, have been passed down from one generation to the next. Even the names Fanes is quite a mystery: one theory is that it stems from the word ‘fani’, of probable Gothic origin, which in Switzerland’ Romansch language means ‘marsh, swamp’.