This installation, inspired by the poem Nocturno III by José Asunción Silva, emerges from the dialogue between poetry and matter, where the recurring phrase “and they were a long shadow” becomes a metaphor for absence, loss, pain. The poem is not presented as a linear text to be read, but as a presence expanded in space.
The installation invites the viewer to experience the poem not with their gaze fixed on the page, but with the body in motion: surrounding, crossing, and inhabiting the words. In this encounter, language loses its condition as a mere vehicle of meaning and transforms into poetic matter, into echo and resonance.
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