From 31 October to 1 December 2026, BUILDING BOX presents the eleventh event in the exhibition project Per filo e per segno. Percorsi di arte tessile in Italia, with Discorso sulla prossimità (2016-2022) by Claudia Losi (Piacenza, 1971).
The installation, reworked specifically for BUILDING BOX, consists of a series of three-dimensional forms in padded fabric and wire that bring to life imaginary and fantastical creatures born from the hybridisation of forms traceable to the animal and plant worlds. The artist builds a visionary and metamorphic universe, in which the very concept of identity is called into question.
At the origin of the work is an interest in ancient bestiaries and, in particular, in A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas, a Chinese text presumably written between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.