This pattern of relationships was developed through the Libri Viaggianti (Travelling Books), a selection of texts that the artist selected as vehicles to activate communication and exchange between different individuals and communities, a corpus of volumes that are now available as a special fund at the Città Studi Library. From the iconographic material collected, phrases from the texts were extrapolated on the one hand, and images reproduced by manual tearing into sheets of paper on the other. These irregular silhouettes (a hoopoe drawn by a child, various animals, mountains, plants, textiles, ornaments) were reworked and transposed into enameled metal silhouettes and planted on the curved surface of the tank of the district heating plant. Just as the tank, by its specific function, stores and exchanges heat and energy so, ideally, the images and words that inhabit its surface come from a series of exchanges, of relationships activated among the people involved.

Stare a guardare is a project by Claudia Losi for Ecotermica Servizi Spa, curated by Unidee Residency Programs, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, in collaboration with Città Studi, Biella.

Special thanks to Walter Ruffato, Nicoletta Galeno.