Natalya Marconini Falconer
Canzàre
curated by Irene Angenica
"Canzàre means to cross through private land.
A village born from volcanic, generative entropy, made of things that unravel as they become something else. Signs of life, slippery acts of magic, re-emerge from the cracks of destruction. How can material cross through the past, into the present, to tell the stories of what is no longer there?"
Natalya Marconini Falconer, Canzàre, Pofi (FR), Lazio. Ph Camillo Pasquarelli
In Pofi, the foundations of a house destroyed by the bombings of the Second World War now surface as a small square, whose perimeter still preserves the original layout of the dwelling, with recognizable thresholds and steps. It is from this site that the project takes shape, developed from impressions gathered during site visits and extended periods of observation.
This space, suspended between private memory and collective use, becomes the starting point: the artist proposes a re-signification of the site through the repaving of a portion of the former house, symbolically evoking a process of reconstruction and renewal.
Embedded in the new paving are casts connected to local history, including flint arrowheads found by children in the fields in the 1950s, and traveller’s joy (vitalba), a plant that is symbol of resilience. The work takes shape as a tribute to the memory of the place and, at the same time, as a wish for the community’s renewal: a gesture that brings together past and present, transforming traces of destruction into a narrative of continuity and regeneration.
Work:
Natalya Marconini Falconer, Canzàre, 2026. Bronze sculpture, 270 x 85 x 40 cm
Via G. Pesci 42, Pofi (FR)
Case che restano (Houses that remains)
16 May 2026
Pofi (FR)
The workshop invites the inhabitants of Pofi to engage in dialogue with the students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Frosinone, sharing family memories and recollections of everyday life: gestures, objects, memories, sensations. Together with the students, these stories will become a large painted canvas, transforming memory into living, collective matter.
Thanks to: Marco Savarese, James Hillman, Massimo Schiavoni from Fonderia Schiavoni, Chiara Gerpini, Lorenzo D’Amici, Edmondo D’Amici, Anna Maria Fiorini, Hagopian, Marisa Colonnelli, Gruppo Folklore Pofano.
Natalya Marconini Falconer (London, 1997) is an artist and writer working between London and Italy. They completed a BA in English Literature from University College London in 2019, a Master of Fine Arts at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2024, and where they were awarded the Sarabande Foundation scholarship. Their practice emerges from gaps in familial and regional memories of Italy. Moving between sculpture, installation and writing, Falconer works with these absences, often combining the material remnants of rapid industrialisation, internal migration and natural events connected to an area. In 2025, they participated in the Atelier Elpis residency and in the group exhibition A te non resta che abitare questo desiderio, both at Fondazione Elpis, Milan. In 2026, they were part of the group exhibition Reassemblage at General Assembly Gallery, London, and were a Fellow in the Studio Programme of Castro Projects, Rome.
Irene Angenica (Catania, 1991) is an educational curator with degrees in Contemporary Art History and Art Education. She attended CAMPO at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, co-founded the CampoBase collective and worked with national and international institutions. From 2021 to 2025, she was Head of Educational Programs at MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania. Her research focuses on discursive, workshop-based, and collective practices, emphasizing non-hierarchical and convivial approaches. For Una Boccata d'Arte, she curated the projects of Elena Rivoltini in Bassiano (2024) and Gabriele Ermini in Oriolo Romano (2025), in Lazio.
Pofi is located in the province of Frosinone, in the heart of Ciociaria. Perched on an ancient extinct volcano, it dominates the landscape with a panorama that embraces the surrounding towns and stretches across the fields and mountains of southern Lazio. The historic center, with its alleys paved in volcanic stone, preserves ancient traditions, some of which are linked to floriculture—a practice that is still deeply rooted in the town today. Among its symbolic landmarks are the 11th-century Church of Sant’Antonino, built in Romanesque style, and the Baronial Castle of the Colonna family, with its Clock Tower. Pofi also holds a central place in paleoanthropological debate thanks to the discovery of fossil remains attributed to Homo heidelbergensis, dating back around 400,000 years. The many finds, now displayed at the Pietro Fedele Prehistoric Museum, testify to the presence of humans in the Sacco Valley area since the Middle Paleolithic.