"Luce dietro tracce incompiute" Installation

"Luce dietro tracce incompiute" is the textile installation by Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball (b. 1975), which with its monumental dimensions welcomes visitors to the heart of the museum, the agora.
As part of the museum's renewed vision, aimed at contemporary themes and practices, MUDEC presents for fall 2023 its second site-specific project anticipating the "Exposure" exhibition, scheduled for March 2024.
Working with the collections of MUDEC and Fondazione Ratti (Como), Mariana Castillo Deball selected twelve textile fragments from different eras, based on which she then created her own watercolors. These interpreted images were printed on fabric in enlarged format and assembled with additional textile elements at the workshops of NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts, together with a group of students. In this way, three-dimensional "palimpsests" were formed, shining with different meanings and stories.