Living Cloister
Intervention
Claustro de Palacio
Concentrico 05
Parasite2.0
The cloister is where monks can have a space of reflection and connection with God. It is where time and space are suspended. The entire monks’ life turns around this space. Unlike the desert, another space where Biblically speaking divine relationships happened, the cloister is full of symbols. In the cloister, nature, humans and animals gather in a sort of artificial representation of all living beings. It tries to reproduce an earthly paradise at the center of the religious building. The project reflects on the symbolic element of the column. Seven animal-morphic structures complete the colonnade that seems it lost a part in the years. They fiercely stand into the courtyard, thus making everyone aware of their presence. They are innocuous, harmless but their size is a warning. They are symbols of a past age, or altars of future tribes that look for new forms of recognition. Nowadays, we take for granted too many aspects of the environment in which we live. The work, made of the seven indistinct beings, wants to be a gravestone of what we forgot, or the incipit of what we haven’t discovered yet. They are their own symbol.
Parasite 2.0
Parasite 2.0 ( Stefano Colombo, Vedano al Lambro (MB),1989; Eugenio Cosentino, Luino (VA), 1989; Luca Marullo, Catania, 1989) is based between Milan and Brussels.They investigate the status of human habitat acting within a hybrid of architecture, design and art. They have worked and collaborated, among others, with Kaaitheater (Bruxelles, 2018), MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna (2018), Damien and The Love Guru (Bruxelles, 2018), Terraforma Festival (Milan, 2017 e 2018), OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni (Turin,2018), domesti.city (New York, 2018), 501(c)3 Foundation (Los Angeles, 2017), Marres (Maastricht, 2017), XX Chilean Architecture Biennale (Valparaiso, 2017), Venice Architecture Biennale (2018, 2014 e 2012), MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI (Roma, 2016), Shenzhen Architecture Biennale (2015). They have carried out teaching activity at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Faculté d’architecture de l’université libre de Bruxelles, Facultatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism Timisoara, Politecnico di Milano, NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti Milano, and at they are regularly teaching at MADE Program-Accademia di Belle Arti R. Gagliardi in Syracuse (Italy). Parasite 2.0 is represented by Operativa Arte Contemporanea Gallery and Galleria Corraini Arte Contemporanea.
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