In Phile & Bau, the eighth of the nine paragraphs of Radical Change, a creation taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a visual opposition between inside and outside is described through the chromatic contrast of black and white, between the transience and fragility of lives arrived in old age and the open spaces, between the branches of a wisteria that symbolize the final union of the two lovers.

Zeus and Hermes wandered through Phrygia in human form and were rejected by all but the elderly Philemon and his wife Baucides. Zeus unleashed his anger against the Phrygians but spared the couple, transforming their humble abode into a luxurious temple and offering to grant whatever they wish. When Phile and Bau were close to death, Zeus transformed them into an oak and a lime tree joined by the trunk. This wonderful tree, which stood in front of the temple, was revered by the faithful for years.

The video work portrays some elderly people, guests of the P. Corsini multipurpose center of Pellegrino Parmense, intent on reading with a difficulty full of tense tenderness the passages taken from the famous Ovidian text.

The elevation of daily discomfort becomes a mythical trait, a dying together in the same instant, the sliding into a dimension that is no longer human, making eternity and infinity an earthly love, a reflection on the time of life and death, on the definitive instant of agreement between the two no longer young lovers.