Untitled (Reflector series), 2025

A scattered constellation of reflectors, dismantled from torches of various sizes and placed with apparent randomness, arranges itself in the space as if to measure its voids, without ever fully occupying them. Minimal objects, which have lost their original function but not their ability to host a body. They emit no light; instead, they are defined by the light filtering through the windows, as if their being unlit contained, in itself, a latent form of attention.

The work also arises from a hidden historiographical correspondence: Tommaso Laureti, the architect of Palazzo Vizzani Lambertini Sanguinetti, is the same one who designed the so-called “Bagni di Mario” in Bologna—a hydraulic system that brought water to the city. In the cistern, there appears a scallop-shaped niche—a carved scallop shell—which once held other reflective shells to multiply the light gathered in the central loculus of the dome. That same form reappears in the fireplace of this room, and in the blue cast taken from it, in a continuity of resonances that aims to bind together the two ends of a research that echoes through time and space.