EZIO AND MARTA, perfect lovers

The story I would like to narrate is strictly close to my life. Ezio and Marta were a married couple and were the best friends of my mother.

When I was little Marta died of cancer and, a few times later, Ezio decided that couldn’t live without her and took his life away through medicines.

What I would like to do is an homage to them and to Félix Gonzáles-Torres (from whom I took inspiration).

Félix Gonzáles-Torres wanted “perfect lovers” to show how when you are with your soulmate it’s like time stops and he represented it with two still clocks at the same time.

What I would like to express instead is how difficult it is to not have your soulmate with you and how you want to stop the time as soon as possible because the time without him/her it’s not the same.

The representation of this work would be two clocks in the center  of the room. One stopped at 9pm and the other at 10pm. These two hours are not casual, they come from the greatest love story ever written, Romeo and Juliet. In the book it is indicated that Romeo killed himself around 9pm and Juliet a little while later.

The clock stopped at 9 would still have the batteries, they just got dead (as Marta passed away).

The other would be stopped a little later, at 10, and would have no batteries inside; this means that the time was stopped voluntarily, not by nature but by the absence of wanting to live with his soulmate. The position in the center of the room is now explained.

The work would be a 360° work with the two clocks pointed at the  same direction and blocked between two glass panels.

Genre: Conceptual art

Author: Sun Ashley

EXPENSES: 150£ + (Payment to be agreed + flight and hotel)