“Two lands have long looked at each other from afar. Then time, like an invisible bridge, brought them together again.”

The installation “Synergos” (from the Greek “Synergy”) was created for the “Ars Sine Finibus” project, a cross-border artistic project that unites Italy and Slovenia.

Two lands have always looked at each other, divided by a line drawn by man. Synergos is born where that line dissolves, where the border is no longer a barrier but a shared breath. This work is a profound reflection on the possibility of eliminating the borders that have divided people for centuries. Through the use of fragile yet resistant materials, we wanted to create a metaphor for life: each object taken individually is corruptible and unstable, but their interconnection produces an unbreakable and resistant bond.

At the top of the installation is the trunk that gave life to “Sinefinis,” whose base is the result of two sinuous bodies merging, back to back.

This composition represents an indestructible friendship, a mutual support that has strengthened the dialogue between two different cultures and countries.

The iron wires are reminiscent of the branches of past vines, the roots that have allowed families to embrace and see each other again, but also the branches that stretch upwards, symbolizing growth, vital energy, and the strength of future generations in rewriting a common history.

The structure that supports the work was also created using a binary pattern, with the hoops of barrels, ancient guardians of wine and time, intertwining in an embrace that unites stories, hands, and seasons. The base was decorated with a mosaic made of fragments of colored bottles. The glass, as transparent as the desire to understand each other, lets light through: the light of coexistence, respect, and beauty that comes from encounter, but also the wonderful natural landscape behind it, which is home to these two populations.

Italy and Slovenia merge in this form suspended between matter and symbol, between past and promise.

The work invites us to imagine a world where lines become bridges and peoples become brothers.

Materials: Glass, Iron wire, Barrel hoops,