Sabrina Mezzaqui. Abat-jour

Render color of the table lamp in which they are distinguishable designs imagined for the lamp itself

The artist proposes the creation of a series of abat-jours for the rooms of the children staying at the department. In the project documentation, published in the catalogue of the exhibition, she refers to the memory of the time she was a child with her sister and she fell asleep lulled by the sound of a music box produced by a lampshade with the image of Topo Gigio. The renderings of the project show the picture of a sleeping baby in his bed with lights and reflections thrown by the lamp in the room occupied by the little patient.

The project is part of the artistic research of Mezzaqui, always characterized by an intimate and delicate attitude, and by an attention to the common objects that are part of everyday life. The work, even if it is not based on the written word, leitmotif of Mezzaqui’s artistic, shares with her poetic a certain imaginative and narrative condition in involving the small user of the lamp with images that would project him in a fairy-tale dimension, with a specific reference to his own childhood and therefore to his personal experience.

The play of lights and shadows, moreover, often occurs in her installations, as in “The light words between us”, created in 2004 with the pages of the novel by Lalla Romano or in her worls made with perforated paper.