Con le stelle

2023, 300×300 cm ca, PLA filament on tulle veil

The work was conceived as a reflection on the theme of waiting, a dimension foreign to contemporary sensibility, intoxicated by speed and by moments that are instantly consumed.
This sense of expectation manifests itself through desire in the site-specific installation created for the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Turin: a vast night sky, scattered with stars.
The indissoluble bond between desire, stars, and waiting has ancient roots.
Etymologically, in Italian, the word desiderio (desire) literally means “sky without stars,” in contrast to considerare, meaning “sky with stars.”
In ancient times, when the heavens were veiled by clouds and the stars invisible, the haruspices could not perform their divinatory practices; thus, a profound longing to see the stars again arose within them, an expectation that ended only with their return.
Only then could they once more consider what the stars sought to communicate.

The work evokes this sense of waiting in its most lyrical form, offering an impossible starry sky within the chapel’s walls, in a play of transparencies and overlays.
Stars merge with ordinary people, as if redrawing a new celestial map, one capable of gathering the desires of all human beings.