Lara Favaretto: Momentary Monument – The Library; Monia Ben Hamouda: Fragments of Fire Worship

Fondazione Bvlgari promotes its first exhibition as Collateral Events of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Hosted in the Sale Monumentali of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana the project combines two site-specific installations: “Momentary Monument – The Library” by Lara Favaretto and “Fragments of Fire Worship” by Monia Ben Hamouda.

The exhibition opens with “Fragments of Fire Worship” by Monia Ben Hamouda, an installation consisting in two neon sculptures installed in the Vestibolo. The fragmented and indecipherable luminous signs evoke a form of writing that has relinquished its communicative function to become a gesture, a trace, a scar.

In the Salone Sansovino, Lara Favaretto presents the seventh and final chapter of “Momentary Monument – The Library”, reactivating the book as an epistemic infrastructure and as a critical space for verification and transmission. The project unfolds through a dialogue with the libraries in national universities and institutions, academies and private collections. The library becomes a device in transformation, challenging the very idea of preservation and exposing it to processes of circulation and redistribution.