Limbo

Limbo is a proposal for the Carrara marble quarries—landscapes deeply wounded by centuries of extraction for the art and architecture industries. The work doesn’t try to cover the damage, but instead opens the wound further—exposing the raw, bleeding body of the mountain.
The intervention is a shadow—both literal and symbolic—cast across the void carved out by human hands. A platform made of corten steel hovers between what has been taken and what remains, emphasizing the absence both above and below.
Corten steel, under constant exposure to air and rain, forms a rust-colored skin. The platform is subtly tilted to guide rainwater toward a single point. There, it gathers the rust’s color of oxidized steel. From there, it flows toward the edge of the quarry—bleeding down the mountain in a slow, continuous stream.
The work becomes both a wound and a witness, a quiet protest etched into the landscape.
The shots from an archive of 1932 are compared with an expedition along the exact same pass created by miners almost a hundred years ago.
Archive access granted by Massimiliano Lucchi.
Project:
Francesca Giantin & Daria Khozhai
Year:
2019
Archive access granted by Massimiliano Lucchi.
Special thanks to Hope Ives Strode and Francesco De Pasquale (Mayor of Carrara city).