The installation of the artist Matteo Nasini in the ruins of Soverato Vecchia draws inspiration from the rite of incubation, an ancestral practice widespread in ancient Greece and in most ancient cultures. The rite of incubation is the act of sleeping in a sacred place, and the dream lived in the night is the divine response to rely on. This ancient spiritual practice involving the oneiric dimension lives again today in a secular and artistic form in the installation and performance Sparkling Matter. Matteo Nasini transforms the brain waves generated during the REM phase into sculptural solids and automatic sound compositions through a technology capable of translating the electrical activity of our brain into shapes and sounds. The sculptures arranged inside the ruin, similar to the lines on columns, are the result of a transposition of the data recorded during the REM phases into geometric shapes, printed in three-dimensional ceramics through a digital process. A performer will be asleep and connected to an encephalograph. During his sleep, it will be possible to listen to the transformation of brain impulses into different sounds and harmonies, dictated by the phases of sleep in real time.

The artistic research of Matteo Nasini (Rome, 1976) starts from the study of sound, to then materialize in physical forms that analyze in depth and observe the surface of sound and plastic matter. The result is a practice that manifests itself methodologically in sound installations, performances, textile works and sculptures.