A THOUSAND PLATEAUS

In A thousand plateaus, Paluzzi has projected his own archival landscape images onto moveable walls that distort the image, mirroring how time distorts memory. At the center of the installation is his own body, placed solitary in the landscape, evoking the European Romantic painters Caspar David Friedrich and J.M.W. Turner from the 18th century. This visual setup invites the viewer to consider the intersection of memory, identity, and perception—where the figure is both part of the landscape and separate from it, embodying a sense of both immersion and distance.

Through the projections, Paluzzi references Deleuze’s concept of the “body without organs” from A Thousand Plateaus, which speaks to the fluidity and multiplicity of identity, where the body is not a fixed entity but a space of continual transformation.

By placing himself at the center of this ever-shifting landscape, Paluzzi creates a tension between the figure and the environment—highlighting the continuous dialogue between the self and the world, where memory, like the body, is in a constant state of becoming.