Only on the occasion of the Contemporary Day, Federica Di Carlo's permanent work-"I SEE, I SEE"-can be visited at the Enterprise spaces in the Eur district, an Italian company active in the field of software production for the finance and banking sector. The work was created in 2019 on the occasion of the exhibition "Materiale immateriale," curated by Melania Rossi, which was inaugurated for the company's new headquarters designed by architecture firm Spazi Multipli. The artist created a site-specific installation integrated into the distinctive architecture of the "suspended ship," a space that is set to become a venue for exhibitions and cultural projects, where rationalist and contemporary styles dialogue between contrasts and visual references.
"I SEE, I SEE," which means - I see, I know - belongs to the series that Di Carlo began making in 2015 inspired by the shape with which the mirrors of space telescopes are assembled. These sculptures are displays for the artist, "screen" surfaces between seen and sighted that act with the landscape in front, generating what Joice would call "involuntary visions."
In the context of Enterprise's contemporary architecture, Di Carlo's work admirably relates to the external landscape and light-flooded interior spaces, characterized by clean forms and transparency of materials. Glass diaphragms that allow different perspectives to open up as one moves through the space are "activated" by Di Carlo's work, which multiplies the horizon and investigates the relationship between light and gaze, provoking disorientation. Depending on the orientation of the natural light, the viewer may see only himself mirrored in the lenses or the panorama before him reversed.