This summer we are happy to present the artist Chiara Bugattis exhibition Horror Vacui in the upper gallery. In her art Bugatti explores the materiality through interventions that goes beyond the sculptural object and moves towards the performative, where movements, gestures and the spatial are important parts of the works.
The exhibition’s title, Horror Vacui, is Latin for “fear of emptiness.” A concept used in both art and physics. The fear of the void is not merely a formal matter. It is urgent: ecological, political. What is feared is not just the emptiness, but the absence of solid ground: a world without guarantees; without a given place to stand; without a natural foundation for belonging.
In the upper gallery of Marabouparken, Bugatti creates an installation that takes up the entire space of the room. There, different materialities, as much as the perceived void between them, create both coherence and friction. An exploration of proximity and distance, and the meaning that can arise in between.