The title is inspired by the Michelangelo Antonioni film L’eclisse, the score for which was composed by Giovanni Fusco, a native of Sant’Agata de’ Goti.
A marble sculpture seems abandoned in the cloister of the village’s former Historic Cinema. The crumbling space evokes the sense of desolation and loneliness that pervades the film.
The inherent inability to communicate between characters is represented by the two marble busts placed symmetrically, one in front of the other. The reference to memorial tradition is an ironic take on vanity – the idea that the celebration of greatness obscures the void behind it. It might be a hidden emptiness, like that of the tufa caves under the homes in the centuries-old village of Sant’Agata, or like the inner emptiness of the film’s protagonists, reflected in the deserted urban landscapes

The decision of Valentina Ornaghi (Milan, 1986) and Claudio Prestinari (Milan, 1984) to work as a pair (from 2009) is based on a desire to develop each project through a constant dialogue of sharing. In our work, we elaborate on and incorporate references from the worlds of design, architecture and art history. We focus on various aspects of “material culture,” understood as the relationship between humans and objects, and how this relationship is related to the history of materials, their potential uses, planning, production techniques, and consumption. Through our poetics, we aim to add new value to familiar things. We seek to create coexistence and balance, to marry seemingly distant worlds, and to preserve polysemy. With practice, and through an everyday familiarity with materials, we challenge ourselves to acquire new skills. The final product is always the fruit of a refining process, and of working on a specific thing until it begins to speak