Hbitat is a project carried out in collaboration with the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and the Scuola Holden.

It consists of a series of art books designed and printed by people who attended the Graphic Arts course, under the supervision of Sonia Gavazza, with texts curated by participants from Scuola Holden. Alongside the artistic printing carried out at the Academy, the project included the design and printing of texts using movable type, as well as binding and assembly at Archivio Tipografico.

In the first edition, four books were produced. The same people who designed and printed the works also participated in multiple stages of collective training and shared work in the Archivio Tipografico workshop.

Lotta

Sommersa

Sommersa arises from the works of Veronica Gambula and Cinzia Rossi, with texts by Ginevra Lagasio Pesenti.

Sommersa is what you have hidden, repressed, or erased—beneath the water and dust. It is what the ocean has enclosed, protected, and transformed into something else. Sommersa is the legacy of other lives, intersecting with our own in latitudes we cannot know. Yet beneath the layers, water and dust leave a common sediment: we are the same.

Sommersa is an artist’s book meant to be entered barefoot. Like a flowing stream, the marks, engravings, and words will appear in transparency, through their stratifications. Even what was erased may return, perhaps in new forms.

Madre

Madre, by Eleonora Fracchia and Elena La Barbera, with texts by Zoe Guindani, is above all a question suspended in silence.
What is a mother? Is it possible to be pure generative power, a matrix? Does a world-matrix exist that connects us all? And if so, where is it— in the sky, underground, or among the knots of language?

Madre is a book-poster that unfolds in all directions, seeking an origin, a zero point from which to start again when we find ourselves in the dark.

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