Sono un unico pianeta sentire (One planet, sensing) is a multimedia installation comprising of a video, sound and a germinating plateau. Stemming from the broader research project Beast Mother, the installation sees Grossi Maglioni expand their exploration of the maternal body, drawing, among other sources, from the animal and plant worlds. The plateau, composed of diverse materials, invites visitors to recline, examining horizontality as both a physical posture and a political position, as a space of rest and a means of reconfiguring hierarchies, contemplating care and interspecies relationships. Groups of seedlings form various words, including the words MOT (word) and HER, which evoke symbolic and linguistic resonances. The soundscape features a lullaby for a growing seed, composed with musician Eva Geist, the text of which was performed in a live reading during the exhibition. Sono un unico pianeta sentire was first exhibited as part of Il Giardino Libernautico at Fondazione Baruchello, Rome.

Sono un unico pianeta sentire, 2022

Mixed media, dimension variable. Detail exhibition view at Fondazione Baruchello, ph. Alessia Calzecchi, Courtesy Fondazione Baruchello

a moment of the performance Sono un unico pianeta sentire, with Eva Geist, at Fondazione Baruchello, ph. Alessia Calzecchi, Courtesy Fondazione Baruchello

Beast Mother

Sono un unico pianeta sentire

Installation

2022

Plateau, double stereo sound installation 12’15’’,

HD video 14’50’’

Fondazione Baruchello, Rome

Curated by Elena Bellantoni

curatorial text

song

sound installation