project in collaboration with Sidonie Pellegrino.

Print on polyester paper, 90 x 170 cm.

From the exhibition Softly disappear, Venice.

The site-specific work presents three different interpretations of a single poetic text, creating an intense dialogue between the enigmatic prophecies of the Cumaean Sibyl and modern artificial intelligence technology. The end result is graphically and symbolically intertwined in a play of empty and full spaces, generating an original and innovative key to interpretation. Pellegrino’s text on the Sibyl (white text) has an independent meaning when read individually, just as Gurgone’s text with artificial intelligence (black text) possesses its own independent meaning. However, when read together, the two texts create a third meaning, offering a new and additional key to interpretation.

Translation:

It’s morning of pale stillness, the sky swells

a sulphurous mist rages, superb

the muffled roar. crystal clear and sly footsteps

Buzzes around a flock hungry for ode

The immemorial legacy of ancient travail

that of apollonian takes possession, flying

of sibylline mystery is tinged. it goes on, he

Professes and prophesies, proud, free, uninjured

From the rugged cavern in which from all fear,

relegated by the mysterious and unknown goal.

alive!

You inside the doubt of shapes and contours, think

That I have fooled you, who you want to be,

or was it you who wondered whether to seek the black

wandering that seemed to have the dreaded death.

eternal life, yes, can contain essence,

but without youth? how can you live

the real you?

Laid your sweat

Fresh you keep your promises,

in sacrifice, to the gallows ready, the heart is

ignorant of man’s love, in faith,

in the name of a sun god now sinks thunder

that in the shade sets you and you tremble, you flee.

But it’s time for you to loosen your tresses, your self,

cast away the blindfold, your destiny is here,

before only the deserted voice of you defers!

Sibyl. Typing your valor, you will fade away.