“Spazio Lucido” is an artistic collective born during the residency experience Dolomiti Contemporanee, from the desire of Edoardo Bonacina and Caterina Perego* to bring their artistic practices together. The collective seeks to move beyond the idea of individual authorship, privileging a shared process of exploration based on the dialogue between two different languages and oriented towards the reactivation of underused spaces. Artistic practice is conceived as an ongoing form of research, an ever-open system of visual inquiry rather than simply the production of artworks, enriched by the interplay of different sensibilities and perspectives, condensed into a single “multi-medium” image.
Spazio Lucido develops both as a dynamic project for graphic and visual interpretation, and as a platform for bringing together artists and initiatives aimed at reactivating spaces. The collective is currently engaged in organizing “Capriccio”, a residency/exhibition at the pre-Romanesque Canonica in Barzanò, where fourteen artists collectively create, over the course of two weeks, a “site-specific” “Gesamtkunstwerk” to be returned to and shared with the local community.
The collective’s practice is grounded in a form of visual bricolage and in the reactivation of spaces, tracing the boundaries of a “Spazio Lucido”: a space of mental clarity and attentiveness towards the minor realities that surround us and that we often pass through distractedly in our everyday lives. It is a visual trigger capable of inviting a deeper engagement with the objects and spaces that inhabit our lives, precisely where, increasingly often, we merely pass by without even noticing them.