‘Ravone à porter’, the new installation by Filomena Guzzo
From mud to trace: a collective ritual of rebirth in Bologna
Running from Sunday 24 May until the end of June at MAMA Maison Malvasia, ‘Ravone à porter’ is a performance installation by Filomena Guzzo created out of a dialogue with the Porto district and the memory of the Ravone river bursting its banks. At the heart of the work is a solid gesture: what was destroyed is loaded onto a wheelbarrow and wheeled into the centre.
The mud drains away, the debris dissolves, and what appeared to be destroyed is turned into colour, trace, movement. Salvaged clothes are the last to arrive: they are not costumes but survivors, walking from the darkness into the light. The performance is a transformation that becomes an act of liberation. No abstract symbols: just matter that changes state. Alongside the exhibition is a participatory space where the public can experience colours, traces and getting dirty.
A moment of collective rebirth in which visitors go from being spectators to being part of the material itself. The installation aims to inject a little poetry into a local social issue. Filomena Guzzo works on the fine line between dreams and reality, straddling art, fashion and design. Her installations are emotive events where we can open our eyes to amazement and dreams.