Fondazione Bvlgari presents in Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

The Sale Monumentali of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana host the first exhibition curated by Fondazione Bvlgari, bringing together works by Monia Ben Hamouda and Lara Favaretto, while highlighting their individual artistic voices.

Founded in 1468 through the donation of Cardinale Bessarione and designed by Sansovino, the Marciana embodies an idea of knowledge as a living organism, subject to transformation. Within this context, the two artists present site-specific interventions that question the library’s heritage, turning the space into a dynamic field between memory and knowledge.

Placed in the Vestibule, Ben Hamouda’s Fragments of Fire Worship consists of two neon sculptures evoking a fragmented, unreadable form of writing. The luminous signs refer to a language that has lost its communicative function and has become gesture and trace, proposing knowledge as a state of metamorphosis.

In the Salone Sansovino, Favaretto presents the seventh edition of Momentary Monument – The Library. A monolithic bookshelf houses volumes donated by national institutions, each containing a specific image from the artist’s archive, which visitors are invited to take away, becoming custodians themselves. In contrast to the logic of preservation, the work introduces a poetics of instability, in which the monument is destined to disappear.