Calura is an installation that drops viewers into the feeling of hot summer days. It is based on a found archive of film photos taken in Ischia and the beaches of Naples in the mid-1980s. The photos come from rolls of film that were dropped off to be developed but never picked up again. Therefore, this collection offers a unique window into a specific place and time, taken from the perspective of multiple unknown photographers. Amidst differing photographic styles, the images convey a common mood and sensory experience of hot, slow, summer days. Heat evokes both the spirit of holidays and the lazy stickiness of being too warm to move. The sound and feeling of fans are inextricable from days like these, so fans are the interaction point for the installation. Visitors can turn the oscillation on or off to control when the images change and adjust the speed of the fans to navigate between six stations of music and sounds related to the archive’s theme.
