“Mettere a dimora” means placing a plant in the ground permanently.
In the summer of 2023, Luca Boffi (Alberonero), Agnese Banti, Simone Carraro and Iacopo Seri lived in the municipality of Londa, on the Montagna Fiorentina, with the aim of designing a work in dialogue with the village and the surrounding nature within a path conceived to emphasise the relationship and the practice of making.
The terrain that welcomed them - made up of rocks, water, asphalt and terracotta bricks - is a physical space capable of sprouting juicy tomatoes, supporting woods with abstract shapes and making an old folk song resound in the evening. During the residency, the ground became a place of encounter and speech, of solitude and community, a home of sound and silence. On the forest paths, among the village streets, a liturgy was established, in the mornings bathed in sunshine and in the evenings by the lights of the street lamps, rituals were established to look together at a new sacredness. A new dogma was whispered, unquestionable and universal in its feeble temporality, a pagan divine was celebrated, other than us and yet speaking to us from very close by.
The works created during A dimora fully restore an image of the place made up of multitudes, of old stories and new traditions, and of an indissoluble bond with nature.
