RADIO CLANDESTINA

 

A Bakelite radio from the 1920s, small and unprepossessing, is the only object in this spectacular installation by the Sardinian artist Antonella Fresú: When it is turned and the tuning knob turned to the right and the left, the programmes can be heard – music, commercials, news, reports – which will seem to have been preserved wonderfully in the old plastic casing across the decades. The most fleeting of all modern media is thus given an historical dimension, such as normally only happens in children’s dreams.