1. Housing unit - Ritrovamenti

Housing unit - Ritrovamenti is an interdisciplinary work consisting of a sculptural-installative component and an audio component that is also performed live.

A shiny, sharp-edged house, built with humble, industrial materials, reinterprets the idea of the "emotional home": a place of protection but also of confinement, a refuge and a prison at the same time. The metallic surface reflects and repels, like a society that prompts us to see ourselves only through our own image.

This physical investigation is accompanied by the audio project, which is envisioned as an aesthetic laboratory in which perception is continuously challenged to question the origin of sound. The listener is not confronted with a binary opposition between nature and technology but rather immersed in a unified sonic sphere, reflecting the contemporary condition of inhabiting a world where the difference between the natural and the artificial is no longer antinomic but part of a single, complex landscape.

The title, Housing unit, refers to Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, the great modernist utopia that started with the Modulor - the measure of man as the focal point of the project. Today, however, man is forced to scale himself down, to inhabit less and less space, both material and mental. The home becomes a symbol of a world that restricts possibilities, especially for the younger generations, for whom living is a privilege and not a right.

The work also dialogues with Bergamo's Triangolo district, analyzed during the workshop with Stefano Romano: from a promise of community to an emblem of urban solitude. From the Triangle to Unity, there is a transition from the multiple to the singular, from the idea of coexistence to lucid and defensive isolation. Within this metal structure, there is a tension suspended between balance and injury, where the artistic form functions as visual therapy: the fragile construction of an inner home that, despite cutting us off, seeks to protect us.