SUPPONIAMO UN AMORE

Fondazione Officine Saffi is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition "Supponiamo un amore" from November 13, 2024, to January 18, 2025, curated in collaboration with Fosbury Architecture and presenting new works by artists Jacopo Belloni, Giuditta Branconi, Isabella Costabile, and Rebecca Moccia. Supported by Iris Ceramica Group, this exhibition is the first in a series dedicated to promoting ceramics and its potential within the practice of emerging artists. "Supponiamo un amore" is the result of the invitation to the four artists to explore – for the very first time in their practice – the possibilities that emerge from the encounter of their research and experimentation with clay. Invited as residents within the foundation’s and Officine Saffi Lab’s workshops, each artist proposed the project of a new work to be made of clay, freely drawing upon the array of tools, techniques, materials, and expertise offered by the team and studio technicians. The exhibition layout, curated by Fosbury Architecture and implemented with the technical support of Laterlite S.p.A., spatially unfolds as a labyrinth, evoking the journey that the artists have undertaken of learning and discovery in ceramic practice. A non-linear journey spangled with trials, experimentation, and small epiphanies—those revelations that come with every “first time”. In their diverse paths, interests and approaches to the present, Belloni, Branconi, Costabile, and Moccia belong to the same generation of artists who grew up in Italy between the late 1990s and early 2000s. The choice to invite them to participate in the project stems from the supposition and recognition of a formal translation potential and narrative development through the ceramic medium within each of their research and practices. In a 1974 song by Rino Gaetano, from which the exhibition title is borrowed, the lyrics anticipates the feeling of suffering brought on by the supposition of unrequited love: "Suppose us two; just love; suppose love, that I don’t want but you do?". In this perspective, the everyday act of daydreaming about an imaginary love generates a transformative tension between imagination and reality at every "first time". If expectations inevitably influence an invitation like the one extended to the artists by the foundation along with Fosbury Architecture, the project of the exhibition offers the opportunity of an "exercise" in which all the parts involved are called to entrust time and its transformations as the only way to measure the success of these first encounters. Exhibition opening hours: Tuesday - Friday: 10.30 am - 1pm; 2.30 pm - 6.30 pm Saturday: 11 am - 6.30 pm Free registration