Elica is a sculpture by Fausto Ferrara in white Carrara marble, realized in 2025, in which matter is brought into a condition of balance between gravity, torsion, void and light. The current page identifies it as a realized work.

The form originates from the relationship between straight line and curve, rigor and deviation. The stone slab is not treated as a compact mass, but as an element capable of losing its static condition: fold, cut and torsion transform the perception of marble and allow light and shadow to participate in the construction of the Work.

Elica is not conceived as a decorative object. It is concentrated architecture: threshold, opening, balance and suspension are reduced to a few essential gestures. In L’inferno orizzontale, Ferrara describes the Elica sculptures as works in which the fundamental questions of architecture — threshold, passage, shelter and opening — are distilled into matter.

The sculpture changes with the movement of the observer. Its profile is never fixed, the relationship between solid and void continuously shifts, and what appears stable preserves a tension toward movement. Elica does not represent movement: it holds movement within matter.

The Work belongs to Ferrara’s research into Necessary Form, in which sculpture becomes a concentrated verification of the same principles that run through his architecture: matter, boundary, measure, light and perception.