La cucina di Olivia

The project stems from a desire to create a space where Lucia Pescador’s works can interact with a new exhibition layout, one capable of welcoming the public into an intimate, domestic setting. The installation, set up next to the historic Bonvini 1909 premises, in the spaces of the former bar – which still lack a definitive purpose – unfolds across small, doorless rooms, designed by Edizioni Brigantino as places for passing through, resting and socialising. The structures engage in a dialogue with Pescador’s works. The title La cucina di Olivia echoes that of one of the artist’s works and suggests a domestic space understood not so much as a defined environment, but rather as a place of memory and relationships. The project revisits and reinterprets an exhibition by Pescador held in 2014, which lasted four days and was conceived as an opportunity for people to come together and participate, prior to the restoration work carried out on the stationery shop. The new installation is intended as a revival of that experience. One of the venues features a screen showing *A mano libera* (2023), a documentary by Judith Du Pasquier dedicated to Lucia Pescador, which complements the project by offering an insight into the artist’s practice.