Hidden in plain sight

The river Tiber may perhaps be considered as the largest museum that the city possesses and  that hides in great sight immense archaeological treasures. It is an inaccessible collective memory, a blind spot similar to that of the eye where there is an area of the retina that sees absolutely nothing. A light bulb is immersed in the water. It is a metaphorical gesture which leads us to experience a reversed vision towards the depth by overcoming the visible membrane, represented by the surface of the water. The surface of the river is thus backlit. A new image presents itself from a new perspective. The curiosity is such as to imagine how much the view is hidden by water: the river’s flora and fauna, waste, microbiological organisms, bacteria, etc., the imagination is the retina containing the receptors needed to “shed light” beyond blind spots.