2025
cobblestones, micro-speakers, mp3 device, AA battery
variable dimensions

In an age of hyper-connectivity, where violence is broadcast live and protest is increasingly silenced, Sanpietrino reflects a shared sense of anger, helplessness, and urgency. Referencing the cobblestones once thrown in the protests of the 1970s, the work repositions them in the present—hollowed, fragile, interrupted by fractures. Their solidity is gone; what remains is a brittle shell, a memory of potential force on the edge of collapse. Hidden within the stones, micro-speakers emit layered vocalizations—choral, raw, collective. These voices recall the strength of unity and the act of preparing for resistance. Only when held close does the sound reveal itself, inviting a quiet intimacy between the viewer and the object—between the body and the echo of dissent.