MUSEUM OF SILENCE. Exhibition design and museological project for a museum on cloistered convent life in the monastery of the Clarisse Eremite nuns of Fara in Sabina. With Walter Balducci, Vania Gianese, Gianandrea Gazzola, Stefano Scialotti, Francesco Mari, Giovanna Mori, Davide Monachi, Emanuele Widenhorn.
An unremarkable space rediscovers its spiritual identity: objects of everyday cloistered life narrated through darkness and silence
The monastery of the Clarisse Eremite nuns of Fara Sabina is located within a closed enclosure and can be visited only in a small part. The need to dedicate a space to the conservation of the everyday objects of cloistered life stems from the fear that they might be lost because of their material poverty, but also from the desire to communicate to visitors what cloistered life is about. The museum is housed in the old parlour, an anonymous hall with traces of a 15th-century fresco.
The heritage is a collection of very frugal and similar objects that bear witness to the repetition of cloistered life over the centuries. It is precisely this repetition that recalls prayer and the offering of poverty and silence. The exhibition is designed as a temporal score, with different objects being lit up at different times, together with the sounds and images of the actions associated with them.
