Arquitectura

Beth Gibbons explodes into an extreme and furious scream during the final bars of threads: the walls of the Scaligero castle, in Verona, seem to explode with the force bursting from this seemingly fragile woman. The walls, solid and impenetrable from the outside, welcoming on the inside, vibrate at the song's sonic power, becoming a membrane of passage between the castle and the city. The urban fabric of the original Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed yet preserved by volcanic ash-fall, gives us a vision of the house as an artifact, revealing how the house allowed a quite well-concealed private life: so much so that the outside was mute to the city and the interior was enriched with greenery, water features, and multiple views, all of which gave the rooms a suggestion of overlooking, though they remained quite intimate.