The painting presents a dreamlike vision of a couple standing on the edge of an empty and abandoned swimming pool. Although there is no sound element, the snow and underwater setting suggest a muffled, meditative, intimate silence, where the mind takes refuge when the noise of the world—increasingly shaken by the logic of power and climate change—becomes too deafening.
The title recalls a famous quote from Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel La Nausée (1938), in which the protagonist experiences a loss of distinction between present and future, but instead of trying to react, he succumbs to the Nausée that leads him to perceive the future as devoid of any promise or grandeur. Starting from this premise, suggested by the current social and geopolitical context, the work instead presents an inner island where we can nourish that melody that, in the form of hope within each of us, stands as a bulwark against the general cacophony that glorifies violence and profit.
