Woven Whispers
A whisper is often used for delicacy, for secracy, or to express a raw or unfinished thought, a work in process. Raw and and subtle are words to keep. Metallic clamps, gently embracing the wooden beams of the BS3 Scuderie ceiling of Villa Bagatti Vasecchi, holding wires. Wires serving as a delicate looking yet a structural support, to host hangers of differents types and sizes, tailormade to each displayed piece, catering for its best display: suspended vertically, while others, heavier object pieces, stand on a horizontal metallic surface. The exhibited pieces are tip-toeing, lifted off the ground, hovering, whispering. In such a historical, raw and charged space such as the Scuderie, we imagined lightness. Lightness achieved through the poetic confrontation between the metallic, the mechanical, the raw and the rigid, whispering movement in the fragile, elegant, light and flexible textiles. Just like a musical box with a mechanical move makes a skirt dance. As technical elements, we have lighting projectors, coming from the ceiling to enhance and highlight the feature and performance of every piece, and rotating mirrors, creating light deflections, and giving a glance at the pieces in reflection. In the entrance, along the counter information point we planted a rayonbelge shelving system serving as a material library, with samples to feel and touch and seeupclose, and as teaser for the main exhibition space.
Textile-sample corner exhibited with Rayon Belge solutions.
Thanks to Wallonie Design, Mad Brussels, Flanders DC for Design, Belgium is Design and all the wonderful designers.
Photos by Luciana L. Schutz and Eline Willaert