And the Self, pure, classical, was something broken off again. Mémoire, Monument, Modernité

The risk of loss of visibility and readibility is an integral part of the monumental logic and of its material, aesthetic and historical nature. To grasp the double crisis characterizing our modernity - crisis of the perceptibility of monuments, crisis of monumentality as such - and to surprise the difficulty of self-knowledge that a public memorial architectural work should convey and update in the midst of our cities, we analyze Jenny Holzer's public art intervention on a baroque monument in Rome, the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola, on which she projects the words of the American poet Henri Cole. The luminous words of the poem, what are they talking about? What cultural and historical memory, and what self-knowledge, collective and unique, do they allow