Progetto MOSE. La seduzione della salvezza

The essay investigates “MOSE”, the uncompleted and apparently invisible territorial scale project in the venetian lagoon, located below the water’s surface to reduce the impact of high water on the city of Venice. The interpretation of the relationship between the waters and the city; the significance of safeguarding Venice; the MOSE project and its multiple implications: aspects investigated in the essay through three different narrative keys. The semantic and metaphorical dimension; the temporal dimension; the spatial and figurative one. Each of them reveals, in itself, the obscurity of the redeeming role of this sunken wall. It is precisely in the ambiguity of the association between “salvation” and “project” that MOSE seems to find its justification each time.