Rosa Mystica at Chiesa di San Remigio, Toscana (IT)
24.06.2023 – 24.02.2023
Curated by Gabriele Tosi.
Architectural design in collaboration with
Loukis Menelaou.
Promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collaborationwith Galleria Continua
[...] The statue of an Announcing Angel,companion to the famous dei Bianchi, disappeared from Fosdinovo in 1628. A few years later, in 1676, a new effigy dedicated to the Virgin appeared: Our Lady of the Rosary, from the Church of San Remigio. According to oral tradition, there is an unusual theory according to which the new Immacolata is indeed the angel, not lost but changed. Many clues supportthis evocative hypothesis. The video installation Rosa Mystica follows this version and stages an eternal mutation between the sculptural bodies. Placed on an altar in the same church where theoriginal statue is conserved, the work explores the potential of immersive technologies to interact with the sacred and with rituality. The age-old relationship between the people of Fosdinovo and the transcendent dimension is also expressed by performative practices such as the enrobing of statues and processions, and in Rosa Mystica it attains a virtual extension with the intention of speaking to tomorrow’s community. [...]