Eva Marisaldi. Metto in moto il prato e partiamo

Photos selected by the artist for the booklet to be printed and placed in the bedside tables

Marisaldi structured the project into two proposals. The first consisted of the publication of a book of images to be placed on the bedside tables in the rooms where the parents of the children staying in the hospital were accommodated, in a manner reminiscent of the Bibles usually found in hotel rooms.

The images were intended to depict particularly beautiful and relaxing places chosen by the artists themselves, offering the parents of the young patients a moment of escape. The attached documentation includes two images chosen by the artist and by Enrico Serotti, while the other images are not shown because they were intended exclusively for the patients’ parents, and the artist therefore decided not to reproduce them here either. The project can be related to works such as Molte domande non hanno risposta (Many Questions Have No Answers) (1997), as well as to the words that Roberto Daolio himself dedicated to this work, describing it as “a portrait / self-portrait of multiple identities and shimmering on the edge of desire.”

The second proposal, Metto in moto il prato e partiamo (I Put the Lawn in Motion and Let’s Go), consisted of a textile bag bearing the title on its upper part and convertible into a chair. Conversations with doctors revealed that, paradoxically, children were not always happy to return home, where, away from entertainers, doctors and nurses, they felt lonely. The suitcase, filled with toys collected and donated by the association, was intended as a way of bringing home a part of the experience of care.

In this project, the artist highlights a characteristic frequently found in her work: drawing inspiration from newspaper headlines, as in the more recent installation Dopolavoro (Premio Suzzara, 2013).

The project was not realised due to a combination of economic, technical and logistical reasons.

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