Call For Artist – English

The Room of One’s Own project is based on the idea of entrusting the artist with the vision of Maison Bocum’s centre room. The intention is to make each visitor entering the space not just a mere user or viewer, but a part of the work itself, inhabiting and animating it.

The chosen artist will be tasked with “designing a space”, that is not just functional to displaying art, but an artistic creation in its own right, seamlessly integrated within Maison Bocum’s established timeline and logistical framework.
The project room with the selected artist’s layout will be displayed until the end of December 2024.

The aim is to enhance, promote, and support contemporary visual arts and artists. The open Call for the Project Room invites site-specific interventions.

The Call seeks to initiate a reflection on the role of everyday social space as a place “necessary for beauty”, as well as the need for bottom-up creative action with which independent artists and spaces cooperate in the social, cultural, and political regeneration of cities. 

Francesca Dondoglio is the winner of the Open Call for Contemporary Art A room entirely for herself promoted by Maison Bocum.

A space to live. A room designed to be explored and experienced. The protagonist is the ultramarine blue, a meditative and vital colour, capable of creating an enveloping environment in which the guest will not only be a user or spectator of the work, but will inhabit it, animate it. An immersive experience that transcends the traditional relationship between work and observer, inviting the latter to become an integral part of the work itself.

Crossing the threshold. On the blue surface of the walls were placed 7 unpublished works that are part of the last phase of the artist’s research. An intervention that not only presents a message, an idea, but becomes a catalyst for inner exploration. Space is not only physical but also and above all a reality within our consciousness. In this perspective, the works are configured as windows that, metaphorically breaking through the wall, open to another dimension. An invitation to face the boundless, the unexplored in ourselves.

For further information on the availability of the works please refer to the following file.