112 pages. Italian language.

Popoli di Vetro (Peoples of Glass) is a new publication by Francesco Cavaliere published by Viaindustriae and produced by Xing, in the frame of the project Abyssal Creatures supported by Italian Council.

Popoli di Vetro is an artist’s book in the form of a fantastical novella. Here, the writing generates an imaginative world in which glass is the pervasive element the protagonist must deal with.

Tan – also known as Metastasio – moves freely in an abyssal setting, searching for springs and fountains he collects as if they were treasures to be kept. His relationship with water becomes irresistible since, as a child, he accidentally swallowed glass. In a succession of phantasmagoric visions, changes in material state, blinding mirages, and intermittent darkness, Tan encounters hybrid entities—animals/women/men/animated objects—that form the peoples of glass. In this book, Francesco Cavaliere consolidates his writing practice as an artistic sign. The text is offered as an object for decoding both word and vision; the realm of literature overlaps with that of art, and reading becomes an act of imagination.