from, maybe to: prelude

2024

audiovisual sculpture, for 1ch video (6’00”), 2ch sound and sculptures, for aluminium bars, piano components, oxidized copper and shadow.

From, maybe To: Prelude is a 3D-animated audiovisual short film that explores memory through the fictional transformation of a single object: the piano. The film begins with a photogrammetric model of a piano that suddenly explodes, initiating a visual and conceptual journey into the unknown. What was once a familiar instrument dissolves into a fragmented landscape, suspended in a dimension beyond time and space.

As the remnants float and shift, the piano is reimagined as an interior world, an abstract terrain shaped by absence and possibility. Slowly, its components begin to reassemble, not with the intention of returning to their original form, but as if guided by an intelligence unfamiliar with the object’s original purpose. In this reconfiguration, the piano reveals itself to be more than a musical instrument—it becomes a fictional machine designed to store human memories. Through this transformation, Prelude explores how meaning emerges from fragmentation, how memory can shape space, and how objects can carry the weight of forgotten narratives. The work unfolds like a dream, where the logic of time collapses and recognition comes only at the end, when the viewer realizes they are witnessing not just a reconstruction, but the birth of a new, speculative entity.

About Gianluca Iadema

Gianluca Iadema (b. 1996, Italy) is a composer, visual artist, and performer working with a transdisciplinary approach to music, video, and installation. His research-driven practice is informed by technology, architecture, and philosophy. He holistically explores sound, image, sculpture and light resulting in works straddling the categories of music, film, and installation art.

Through a conceptual lens, he explores themes of materiality and imperfection. He uses speculative narratives to subvert conventional meanings of objects and their interpretations. Within this ambiguity his work opens space for the imaginal and invites the observer into an open-ended, multi-sensorial exploration where discovery itself becomes the essence of the artwork.

In terms of sound, he focuses on the abstraction of different musical styles, such as techno, glitch and pop music, merged with contemporary classical concepts.

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