Description
In Environments #2 – Attic, Former Convent, Valdilana (BI), Eleonora Gugliotta continues her Environment project with an intense reinterpretation of an abandoned space —an attic that once served as a convent—transforming it into a visual and symbolic field where memory, matter, and color interact. The textile intervention, composed of a network of vibrant threads that cross the roof, beams, and skylights, redefines the geography of the space: what was previously invisible or marginal becomes the protagonist. The multicolored threads insinuate themselves between the wooden structures and aged surfaces, creating visual tensions and ephemeral architectures that suggest new paths of vision and contemplation. In the work, the attic is no longer just a technical room or storage area but becomes a place of transformation and temporal suspension: the patterns of color introduce a dimension of lightness and suspension, contrasting with the historical and material weight of the site.
The layering of lines creates new voids, new openings, generating a “structure within the structure” that invites the viewer to observe not so much the place as it was, but as it can be conceived through art. Through this action, Gugliotta explores the boundary between presence and absence, function and inactivity, habitability and abandonment. The choice of the attic as the location—typically a residual space, hidden and often forgotten—reinforces the theme of the visibility of traces and the reserve of memory: the threads represent the passage of the artist and of presences that are no longer visible, but which continue to resonate within the building. The work ultimately acts as a metaphor for interiority: a space that becomes physical, that allows itself to be traversed, that fills with signs and light. It is an invitation to reflect on what remains when function has ceased, on how art can regenerate the residue, making visible what was previously invisible.
