Terrae quati motibus is a site-specific video installation designed for the remains of Chiesa dei Santi Giacomo e Filippo, located in Ancona historic district.
The apse of the church only survived World War Two bombings and 1972 earthquake. Nowadays its consolidated and usable structure takes the shape of a memorial, a symbol of rebuilding: in fact, it's the ideal "screen" for an artwork about earthquakes.
The projection of Ovidio’s aphorism terrae quati motibus (literally: being shaken by the earthquake), coming to us from a remote antiquity, comments on the flow of images: three ancient sacred art paintings surviving the recent earthquake in Central Italy deform and vibrate as if shaken by a quake.
Finally, the installation makes use of the background noise produced by an electric generator providing the power; this peculiar sound returns the sense of emergency and precariousness that always comes after an earthquake.


Reproduced paintings are by Cola d’Amatrice, Sacra Famiglia con S.Giovannino - around 1520 (Museo Civico Cola Filotesio  - Amatrice); Gianbattista Tiepolo, Apparizione della Madonna col Bambino a San Filippo Neri -1740 (Chiesa di S.Filippo Neri - Camerino); Michelangelo Carducci, Resurrezione di Lazzaro - 1560 (Basilica di San Benedetto - Norcia).















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Chiesa dei Santi Giacomo e Filippo _ Ancona      photo: Paolo Zitti