Davide Allieri: 47°24’35’’N / 9°44’20’’E

With 47°24’35’’N / 9°44’20’’E, Davide Allieri (*1982, Bergamo, Italy) presents his largest environment to date at Kunstraum Dornbirn. Conceived specifically for the industrial hall, the installation excludes daylight and transforms the space into a walk-in science fiction landscape structured by artificial light and sound. Monumental fibreglass sculptures—a luminous portal and a drone-like machine body around four metres long—stand within a network of cables whose function remains unresolved. An original sound composition by Francesco Peccolo spreads through the space as a low, immersive presence, intensifying the sense of suspension. 

The exhibition does not stage a conventional dystopia. Rather, it proposes a precisely located yet temporally indeterminate environment in which reality and fiction, past and future, appear as overlapping layers. Allieri is concerned less with catastrophe than with what remains after it: forms persist, but their original function seems suspended; human presence is absent and perceptible only as a trace. His fibreglass sculptures are conceived as shells rather than solid bodies, preserving emptiness as both memory and potential. Developed in response to the architecture and industrial history of Kunstraum Dornbirn, the installation positions visitors on a threshold between technological relic, speculative future and fallen civilisation. The title’s coordinates anchor the work in a real site even as they withdraw it from narrative certainty.

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