Il giardino perduto

2024, environmental dimensions, PLA filament, incandescent light bulb, Castle of montecavallo, biella

Crossing the threshold of the room, one has the impression of entering a sacred space, hidden, secluded, and guarded by vegetation.
A light filters through a suspended structure that recalls a tangle of branches or an intricate embroidery.
These are lines drawn by the artist with a 3D pen, a tool he uses to give autonomy to the sign, turning it into matter and releasing it into the void.
People and leaves play with one another, sliding across surfaces, between fullness and emptiness, plaster and flesh.
Like a carousel, they turn, drawing us into a slow current that carries us back to the origins of time, to an age when human beings lived in harmony with the cosmos.
The story told is both ancient and new, horizontal, woven from multispecies alliances, where each being exists in relation to many others. It is at the heart of a vast network of respect and symbiosis, of figures made of thread and unexpected kinships.
It is a difficult story, because forgotten, lost, yet perhaps the only one we can still tell.