2021 – site specific ongoing project in a building undergoing transformation: the small building is waiting to be restored. The intervention is temporary.
in collaboration with PERFORMATORIO [leggi la conversazione]
The building is located in Via Nazario Sauro 3 in Bergamo. It has been an artist’s workshop, a graphic design studio, an upholstery shop and it has been closed and uninhabited for some years now. It occupies a small portion of space between the Morla river along Via Baioni and the Via Baschenis bridge, passing exactly over one of the canals that branches off the river covered by the streets.
The position in the city of the small building and its connection with the water were the starting point for an ephemeral installation which modified the interior and related it with the external space.
The map of Bergamo’s water canals became a graphic pattern that covered the interior wall. The hexagonal shape indicates where the building is located in the network of canals. This process focuses on the hidden network of canals, considering them as an integral part of the urban space: the hidden canals become the only reference point for orientation.
Waiting for it to be demolished, the coated wall of the printed map was photographed using slides, to create non-reproducible direct positive details, traces.
During the whole time of the intervention, outside the door facing the street there were sheets with a map of Bergamo’s canals and the sign I AM HERE.