Research and design of an installation within an exhibition at Real Academia de España en Roma
Rome (Italy) / June 17 - August 31, 2014
Contemporaneous to the construction of the notion of privacy and increasingly throughout the 20th Century, the interior spaces we inhabit became entangled with different cultural and economic processes and exploded any stable definitions of its boundaries. And still, interiors continued to gather different constituencies and manage systems of inclusion and exclusion in forms exceeding their physical delimitations alone.
"Interior networks, Italian habitations" reflects on the real and imagined interiors built simultaneously in the late 1920s and the 1930s in Italy, and displays the complex array of spaces overlapping in the construction of an Italian habitation throughout the period. Different interiors were linked within cultural and material networks reaching from rural settings to New York and Addis Abbeba, from arrangements suggested in Il Corriere della Sera, to objects on display in La Rinascente, to stages shot in Cinecittà.
Simultaneously a display wall and a dividing fence, the exhibition reflects on the way in which the flatness of interior images reproduced in the media and the fleetingness of interior ensembles in department stores and exhibition rooms had lasting spatial implications and created borders at different scales.
"Interior networks, Italian habitations" is a private installation in a collective exhibition.