PERPETUO is a site-specific installation created by Veronika Psotková for the Renaissance-style single-nave environment of the Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione, Venice. It is a work intended to act as a threshold between the real, spiritual and virtual worlds, worlds between which Western civilization is groping its way, often failing to distinguish their boundaries. In this sense, the endless cycle of figurative composition is the materialization of contemporary social architecture.
PERPETUO is a sculptural paraphrase of the endless proliferation of iconographic posts that govern our reality, from automatic scrolling on social networks, to personalized advertisements, to the most private spheres of one’s life. It thus creates a unique space to stop and reflect on what we still perceive as real on the “net” and what is no longer real.
PERPETUO represents the eternal human need to idealize narrated stories as we want them to be perceived. Only the means of expression have changed throughout human history.
