Supervoid
Rapsodia
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The Roman architecture studio Supervoid was invited to design a series of temporary sets and devices to host the Sonata festival programming.
Rapsodia (Rhapsody) delves into the museum’s storage and the inventory of recent exhibition materials, to present a project of critical interpretation that follows specific assembly rules. No element is used to reassemble the original object, but each installation is conceived using at least two materials sourced from different exhibitions. The elements re-emerge in a three-dimensional collage, employed in new functions that test the possibility of materials to be repurposed: carpets becoming backdrops, exhibition structures transformed into a long folding screen, and metal gratings that become stage wings. Each of these devices retains traces of the authors who produced them, emphasizing the collective nature of the museographic project.
At the same time, Rapsodia is a reflection on the accumulation of materials occasioned by the continuous production of cultural events, and an opportunity to define spaces through minimal gestures and simple furniture elements.
With materials from the exhibitions: Mario Diacono, Diaconia. La scrittura e l’arte; Cinzia Ruggeri, Cinzia says…; Stefano Tamburini, Accelerazione; Studio Temp, Tempus Fugit
Implementation and construction: Matteo Pompili
Nomade Arte, Fabio Pennacchia, Carlo Giannone
SUPERVOID is an architecture office based in Rome. It is led by architects Anna Livia Friel, Benjamin Gallegos Gabilondo, and Marco Provinciali. Supervoid’s work focuses on space, understood as a material and cultural construction. The studio designs based on a careful study of the contexts in which it operates. Operating mainly in Italy, it has often worked on historical buildings. Supervoid has realised projects in Italy, Chile, France and the United States. It has designed furniture, pavilions, installations, flats, shops, buildings, public spaces. Designs and drawings have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, RIBA and the Milan Triennale. Supervoid has published projects and essays in SANROCCO, Domus, The Real Review, Vesper, Area. The members of the studio combine their professional activity with teaching and academic research at various institutions including IUAV in Venice, TU Wien, TU Dortmund, La Sapienza and IED in Rome. Supervoid curated the research project EUPavilion, presented in 2022 at the German Academy in Rome, and published by Bruno books in 2022.