The two videos complete each other, by alternating sound and silence or by layering it. Sometimes only one screen is showing, sometimes both at the same time offering two images that complement each other.

The documentation allows a peak into the privacy of intimate conversations, a conversation tinted by the awareness of the impended death of one of the two. The dialogue happens between the artist and her grandmother.

Through the words of the artist’s grandmother, spirituality is investigated by questioning mundane and funny anecdotes, painful memories and the existentialistic issues that are intrinsic of the human state of being. While the grandmother is the one being shown and the centre of the work, her interlocutor’s presence (the granddaughter and artist) is mainly perceived as a voice behind the camera. Additionally, the artist is continually intervening on the position of the camera and focus of the lens, therefore adjusting and redirecting the viewer’s gaze. The spectator acquires Claude Persichetti’s point of view and position.

Throughout the videos symbolic elements emerge, such as meteorites, a pink sun, deserts and cats, all linked to the protagonists life stories and experiences. Some of these symbols create a parallelism with the grandmother’s favourite book, “Terre des Hommes [Land of Men]” by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, which she mentions multiple times, and reads fragments of. The book is an autobiographical work, in which the protagonist, Saint Exupéry, narrates events and observations related to his life as an aviator. As such, he spends most of his time suspended between our planet’s surface and the stars, far from the two, but immersed in both. Stars, the immensity of space and astrophysics are recurring topics in the woman’s reflections too, as they portray a fascinating complexity that is understandable through mathematical laws and incomprehensible at the same time. This unintelligibility is often redirected to religious inquiries.

Other themes that are found in both the book and the conversations are war and death: both the aviator and the old woman experienced WW2 as French citizens, the first found death during that time and shortly after having written the book in question, the second was approaching it when the recording of the videos happened. The topic of death is substantially present in the whole work.

Marie Thérèse De Zorzi died two days before the installation was shown for the first time.