Piero Mottola's Voices of Life at Havana Biennale

Piero Mottola (born 1967 in Caserta) represents Italy at the XIV Havana Biennale with his sound installation Voices of Life, adapted for the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. The work uses 10 emotional acoustic diffusers and an automatic acoustic correlator to generate over 500 sound fragments from voices and body sounds, linked to ten emotional parameters: Fear, Anguish, Agitation, Anger, Sadness, Surprise, Excitement, Pleasure, Joy, Calm. Voices of Life is part of Mottola's larger Voices project, ongoing since 2015, and follows his 2019 performance Cuban Voices during the XXII Week of Italian Culture in Cuba. The installation will enter the museum's permanent collection after the biennale. The XIV Havana Biennale, structured in three sections over six months, concludes on April 30, 2022. Mottola's research explores cultural identity and the evocative potential of voices from different geographic contexts.