Chiara Briganti, ESPRIT DE FENÊTRE

Room 6

Chiara Briganti has been making her magic boxes since the 1970s and, at over ninety years of age, still assembles microcosms that summarise stories, dreams and obsessions in just a few centimetres. Each little theatre is accompanied by a quotation, which is intended to provide an opening for understanding what is represented and which, on the other hand, sometimes adds to the mystery. The different perspective planes are in fact equivalent to as many levels of reading and interpretation of the works, which are often double-sided, and into which the artist inserts materials from distant sources: stones, glass, and meticulously cut eighteenth and nineteenth-century engravings.

Chiara Briganti (Montpellier, 1921)