Soap Opera

Lab.Oratorio, is a project space dedicated to research, experimentation and exposure of the young contemporary art scene. Lab.Oratorio is built to be a place of experience through artistic practice, the involvement of the community and craftsmen. Lab.Oratorio is located in Porta Capuana, on the first floor of the monumental complex of Santa Caterina in Formiello, the constitutive space of the ancient passage corridor, as well as a connecting place, between the large cloister and the small cloister that characterize the entire complex and that, even today, represent the architectural backbone of the former Borbone wool factory. Lab.Oratorio is set up to be a place to cross and travel both for artists, who will be invited to activate a highly experiential and relational process, both for the visitors, from time to time involved in activities such as study visits, talks and exhibitions .

The site specific exhibition Soap Opera is perfectly coherent with Made in Cloister mission of reconversion, that started with the restoration of the former abandoned Cloister in the complex of Borbone wool factory, that was reconverted into a space for exhibition and performance in which artists can collaborate with ancient napoletan artcraft.

The research of Nuvola Ravera links the concepts of the common and monumental good with the actions of its protection and conservation, observing the limits and the obligations referring to these and finding again in the use of a soluble material like soap, the symbolic key to a sensitive and always interpretable balance. If these suggestions came to the artist from a study of the history and everyday life of the Lanificio di Porta Capuana, further inspiration came from analizing the landscape of the city of Naples, its stratifications, its intertwining architectures, its smells and odors, as that of the soap, that comes from homes and that connects the interior of the house with the outside world, tracing a perceptive geography of the urban space.