Cardona Room

The Power of Display. Gae Archive
8-Channel Video Installation
 

Video installation, containment, balance, play and enigma

The installation, displayed in two rooms (educArt Space and Room 14), which fairly closely correspond to the places made visible in the basement, culminates a process of research into the structure of the Museum and the architectural reform by Gae Aulenti between 1985 and 2004. The proposal includes three circus characters who move and interact within the foundations of the building as agents of balance, containment and play.

The display is in dialogue with the layout of the architecture, understood as the accumulation of strata and layers that refer to its operations, its hierarchies and its history. The division between the visible and the invisible is thus put into question, between the museum space dedicated to art, the spaces on display and the spaces that are supposedly merely functional, often hidden, but which, in turn, are the essential agents for sustaining this artistic heritage legacy, which is at once so powerful and yet so fragile.

The Cardona Room made it possible to concentrate information about what could happen at a depth of 6 meters.