WORKS

The performance, last of the three works realized during Gianni Pettena’s stay in Salt Lake City, consisted in the “physical visualization” of the municipal boundary, a red line stretching for about forty kilometers painted on the road and tracing the plan of the city and its administrative limits: an operation that was carried out by leaning out of a pickup truck loaded with some drums of red paint, a spray gun and a compressor to operate it.

Red Lineconcluded a trilogy of metaphorical interpretations of the contradictions of the contemporary city, its stupidities and its beauties, conducted through interventions that also had a strongly contextual value, as they tackled the theme of the relationship with the city, the relationship with the fact of inhabiting today, in a place in which the presence of natural elements, in particular the Great Salt Lake and the Great Salt Lake Desert, is particularly significant.