ZIRRIBORRATU / TRACCIARE ( TO TRACE). SERIE
“Zirriborratu / tracciare” (2025) reveals an artistic intervention in the landscape connected to the nature of the place: the Posillipo coast in Naples, where the artist undertook her own inner journey during her artistic residency organised by ART1307 in 2022.
Delving into the layers of the geological-volcanological history of the territory, Pilar Soberón has created this series of photographs with interventions recorded in Pausilypon – translated from ancient Greek as ‘for relief from pain’ or ‘end of tragedy’ – as the landscape truly awakens a phenomenological imagination.
The energy flows interpreted by the artist show an active connection between the sea and the atmosphere, warning us that what we perceive as emptiness is actually a vast sea of energy. As David Bohm (1988) suggests in his theory of implied order: ‘what we perceive through our senses as empty space is, in reality, a fullness that is the basis for the existence of all things, including ourselves’. He therefore proposes that ‘… what we call empty space contains an immense reservoir of energy’… and continues ‘… this vast sea of energy can play a decisive role in understanding the cosmos as a whole’.
