Vai Saber, 2023, River stones and Plexiglas, 70 x 500 x 300 cm, project for Beicaben, initiative for the valorisation of the Occitan valleys near Cuneo.
Curated by Olga Gambari. Site-specific installation at Villa San Pietro (Monterosso Grana, Cuneo).

Some recent archaeo-astronomical studies hypothesise that there are close connections between lithic basins (also called cupels), very common in the northwestern Alpine arc, and certain star clusters.
Vai saber evokes the relationship between the small cavities carved into the existing rocks in Valle Grana and Val Maira and the constellation of the Pleiades.
The project involved finding certain stones that were taken downstream, to be brought back further upstream, from where they presumably came. Bringing them back in space (upward) meant ideally taking them back in time, recalling those distant epochs to which the petroglyphs present so widely in this area date. By contrast, the full volume of the stones enters into dialogue with the hollowed-out cavities of the cupels.
The seven stones reference the seven main stars of the Pleiades constellation. They do not rest on the ground; they are detached from it just enough to be positioned between earth and sky, outside the historical time in which we are immersed.
In the Occitan language, the title Vai saber means, “who knows”, since the hypothesis considered concerning the meaning of the rock phenomenon of the cupels remains only one of the very many possible hypotheses put forward.