The installation Suspended Forest was created by CTRLZAK studio for the exhibition Pinòquio in São Paolo. The image of a “suspended forest” in a state of perpetual balance was recreated; a fictitious balance where everything is in continuous motion a fact emphasised through the interaction with the public. The people moving the logs contribute to the creation of the imaginary puppet through printed images that magically appear on the floor.
In Collodi's story “The Adventures of Pinocchio" Geppetto creates a puppet giving shape to a piece of wood given to him by Mastro Ciliegia. Not just a normal log but a special wood that reacts to provocation. In the story Mastro Ciliegia gets scared and he gives it away to Geppetto that decides to make a puppet giving shape to his vision. Human genius and creativity can transform all things and animate unpredictable situations. Nature in its' own turn is nothing sort of life itself. In the installation conceived by CTRLZAK studio the image of a “suspended fores” in a state of perpetual balance is recreated. A fictitious balance where everything is in continuous motion a fact emphasised through the interaction with the public. The people moving the logs contribute to the creation of the imaginary puppet through printed images that magically appear on the floor. Like Geppetto, the spectator as well can participate in the creative process of construction interacting with the work, animating a “work table” where through images everyone can “give life” to his Pinocchio. With this installation CTRLZAK emphasizes, not only the aspect of the translation of thought into form through human action, but also the magic potential hidden in rediscovering things by looking at them with different eyes.
