Transforms
Alongside the different sizes of the Open Space Museum, which bring together all five scenarios (Painting, Photography, Textiles, Sculpture, and Digital Art), two alternative versions have also been developed, known as Transforms. Unlike the full Open Space Museum, which showcases the complete spectrum of experiences, Transforms concentrate on one or more selected scenarios.
The idea behind Transforms is to ensure flexibility and adaptability. They make it possible to present a more focused selection of experiences in contexts where space, time, or audience needs call for a scaled-down version. In this way, Transforms extend the reach of the Open Space Museum by offering smaller, curated exhibitions that still carry forward its core themes and innovative spirit.
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Goddesses and Their Lovers
Goddesses and Their Lovers / Screen Shot of 3d Model
This installation transforms the exhibition space into a myth-inspired garden of reflection and repose. At its center are a series of hammock stations—five arranged in symbolic pairs and one standing alone—each inspired by Greco-Roman and Egyptian mythology. These spatial constellations recall divine unions, mortal encounters with gods, and solitary acts of self-love and transformation.
Visitors are invited to recline in the hammocks, inhabiting the roles of gods, goddesses, lovers, or the self in dialogue with its own reflection. The arrangements—side by side, back to back, above and below—mirror the emotional and narrative dynamics of the myths, turning symbolic content into a bodily experience.
Goddesses and Their Lovers is both a sculptural environment and a participatory performance. It offers a contemplative journey through themes of love, longing, death, and renewal, while also extending into the digital realm. Through augmented reality overlays accessible on mobile devices, Born Digital Art enriches the space, creating a bridge between ancient archetypes and contemporary technological forms of storytelling.
more info: https://goddesselovers.blogspot.com
The Isis Reflectorium
The Isis Reflectorium / Screen Shot of 3d Model
The Isis Reflectorium / Screen Shot of 3d Model
The Isis Reflectorium transforms the museum into a space of play, myth, and reflection. Inspired by the ancient Iseum at Pompeii, this installation reimagines ritual architecture for a contemporary audience, where every gesture becomes part of a dialogue between past and present.
Here, visitors enter an environment alive with contrasts: foam busts of gods and emperors turned into playful objects, lenticular prints shifting between white marble and vibrant reconstructions, basketball hoops and digital counters transforming acts of play into collective ritual. Through the HeadShot App, once-silent figures begin to “speak,” recounting their own histories as if awakening from stone.
The Reflectorium unfolds across five symbolic parts that echo the architecture of the Iseum. Rising at its center, The Tower is a vertical space-frame fitted with hoops, lenticular prints, and counters, acting both as monument and participatory scoreboard; it recalls the temple podium of the Iseum, elevated and visually dominant as a link between human action and divine presence. The Oracle gives “voice” to antiquity through busts and the HeadShot App, recalling the inner cella where the cult statue of Isis embodied prophecy and revelation. The Court becomes the performative arena where visitors throw busts through hoops and trigger transformations in color and form, paralleling the Iseum’s peristyle courtyard of ritual and public gathering. The Mirror invites self-reflection, positioning the visitor as subject and interpreter of myth and history, just as the sacred basin of the Iseum mirrored the face of the devotee while symbolizing purification, renewal, and Isis’ connection to the Nile. Finally, The Cage marks boundaries and constraint, evoking fragility and tension while recalling the enclosing walls of the Iseum sanctuary, which protected the sacred precinct and defined the threshold between sacred and profane.
more info: https://isisreflectorium.blogspot.com/