Supervoid designs a room within a room for Premio Strega
The exhibition Uno, Cinque, Dodici. Ottant’anni del Premio Strega by Supervoid brings to mind the different levels of interpretation that its long history literary offers prizes to visitors, presenting an “ideal library” consisting of more than a thousand volumes selected from 1947 to the present day. Organized in chronological order, it recounts, in tandem, the events, protagonists, controversies and media narratives that have accompanied the seventy-nine editions carried out so far. THE exhibition plan designed around a single object, placed in the center of the room. This kiosk It is imagined as a room within a room: an autonomous architecture and, at the same time, an exhibition device capable of staging the different environments that accompanied the history of the Prize. THE interior spaces evoke an intimate and domestic dimension, consisting of rooms, fabric surfaces and colors reminiscent of the settings associated with the birth of the Award and the community that animated it. The exterior, in contrast, appears as an abstract and substantial shell, designed to display books in a contemporary art museum.
all images from Louis DeBelle
Interactive windows bring the aluminum exhibition stand to life
The materiality of the shell is nevertheless enlivened by a series of elements that articulate the surfaces of the stand: the windows that open inwards, the shortlisted books and the row of winners. These elements give rhythm to the architecture through an almost classical articulation, despite its essential materiality. The covers of the winning books, with their different shapes and designs, emerge from the aluminum planes, introducing a visual vibration to the ordered ensemble. The balance between abstraction, rare materiality and archival objects helps convey the various dimensions of Premio Strega: its spaces simultaneously private, public and institutional. Finally, the visitor’s experience from the exhibition, curated Studio Supervoid, based on the interaction between projection and audience. Visitors approach the pavilion and, with the gesture of opening the windows inwards, activate the device, which responds to their action by assuming ever-changing configurations.
exhibition stand designed for One, Five, Twelve. Eighty years of the Strega Prize
Supervoid creates an “ideal library” of over a thousand volumes
chronological display tracing the history of the Premio Strega since 1947
windows integrated into the facades of the pavilion as interactive elements
