Domenico De Lucia - Forma Residua

Residual Form does not occur after the trauma, but within its process. The sculpture does not reproduce the event, but rather the transformation that it produces in thought as it continues to act. The thread emerges from the head as a line of active tension: it does not represent the wound, it exerts it. Its presence introduces a principle of continuous pressure, a force that neither explodes nor resolves, but reorganizes itself in space through an autonomous form, capable of bearing its own visual and conceptual weight. The material amplifies the friction between vulnerability and resistance. In this divergence, the wounded thought does not reveal itself as a collapse, but as a system that reconstitutes itself, that restrains, that structures. The resulting form is neither a conclusion nor a scar, but the temporary outcome of an unstable balance. Residual Form thus takes trauma not as static permanence, but as an operational condition: a process that continues to produce structures, tensions, and forms, making visible the way thought, even when damaged, remains active.