Fuori Stampo

art installation

Exhibit: “Nomina Nuda. Contemporary Representations of Unstable Words”
Consorzio Creativo, Philosophy Festival of Modena (IT) 2023
Installation concept and realisation: Fiorella Rossi and Maria Calzolari
Artists: Giulia Baraldi, Maria Calzolari and Fiorella Rossi, Francesca de Chiara, Arianna Maria Leva
Curator: Cecilia Gaetarelli

Words are molds within which the known reality takes shape: to each thing belongs a name that makes it recognizable, just as molds draw precise boundaries within the pastry dough, generating individual entities extracted from a formless whole.

But what happens to ideas without definition? What is outside the mold? “Fuori Stampo” (out of mold) gives shape to these nameless concepts, creating free forms from perimeters randomly traced around the most familiar cookie molds (the flower, the star, the heart…). It is precisely in this space, beyond standards, that infinite possibilities of interpretation emerge, shapes that tell stories and ideas yet to be explored.