Salome house
Artist Tomoko Nagao, Vemworks architects (architects Marco Dellatorre, Emanuele Corte and Vittoria Fiorito), realized by GF Soluzione Arredo
First Prototype. Here is the world premiere of the prototype for a more complex project that the artist has been developing for several years, with the aim of transforming it into a playground or seating areas and public spaces for cities and parks.
The Salome House project, one of Tomoko Nagao’s favorite subjects, has been reimagined as an interior space, born from the artist’s desire to extend the concept of sculpture into a living dimension, accessible from within.
“The head of the dead girl is designed to become a place of pleasant respite and immersion in a different dimension. Through her eye-windows, we can see the outside world and identify with the inner world of the girl-icon.
Salome’s gaze comes back to life through our presence within the space, through our own gaze upon the world. The skeleton of Salome Kawaii becomes a place where everyone is alone with themselves and regains the capacity for imagination. It also resembles the meditation space of the Japanese tea ceremony, where you must stoop to enter and then have a view limited to certain elements of nature, and thus your thoughts are also conditioned to focus on specific topics.”
From a technical standpoint, it is important to note that the project is the result of a collaboration between the Japanese artist and the Italian architecture firm Vemworks Architetti (Marco Dellatorre, Emanuele Corte, and Vittoria Fiorito), and was executed by GF Soluzione Arredo.
The architectural firm developed a custom project by selecting the appropriate materials and technologies, taking the artist’s needs into account, in a unique and synergistic collaboration between Japanese creativity and Italian technology. The firm believed in the project from the very beginning, and this collaboration demonstrates how a purely theoretical and ideal concept can become a visible, tangible reality.
The Franciacorta Village event will also serve as a test for the artist to gauge the reactions of the public and spectators.
