Private Atlas, Chiara Dynys – Chapter II – 8/8

Chapter II – Attraversamenti
May – August, 2025
BUILDING BOX

Texts by Alessandro Castiglioni

The second chapter of Private Atlas, an exhibition tracing Chiara Dynys‘ journey through twelve installations for BUILDING BOX, explores boundaries and thresholds — hence its title, Attraversamenti [Crossings]. Many of the artist’s works function as places where experiences unfold, events emerge, and limits — both material and immaterial — are imagined and overcome. The notion of transition, transformation, and the ambiguity of thresholds has frequently been central to Dynys’ work, both in a physical and symbolic sense. Her approach is never static: the idea of duality —entry and exit, opening and closure, light and darkness — is not presented as fixed, but rather as part of an ongoing process, a dynamic state.
This entropic experience takes shape and is conveyed through the four installations created for this second chapter, each employing different forms: from light-sensitive lenticular surfaces that transform with the viewer’s movement to a series of architectural archetypes intersected by objects, lights, or spectacular atmospheric phenomena.

In Attraversamenti [Crossings] we also find works that trace the artist’s research through various historical moments, reflecting the complexity and diversity of her explorations. In this sense, the variety of media Dynys employs further evokes the theme of crossing: from photography to glass sculpture, from synthetic materials to moving images.
This concept of passage is also evident in her dialogue with spaces and nature: lights, fog, and the Northern Lights are phenomena the artist both traverses and invites us to experience—if only visually—through the windows of BUILDING BOX, and once again in the imprint left upon our memory. For Chiara Dynys, crossing is thus a non-negotiable condition, a metaphor for the very essence of being an artist.

Chapter II – 8/8

The fourth installment of Attraversamenti [Crossings] — the second chapter of the Private Atlas project — presents Accampamento di fiori  (2015), on view from July 25th to September 3rd, 2025.
This work consists of a series of architectures traversed by the gaze and light. Acrylic structures, reminiscent of tents, both protect and suffocate at the same time, enclosing pairs of delicate floral sculptures within these forms, immersing them in a kind of dense, colored mist.
Various elements intertwine in these sculptures: from the geometric linearity rooted in Minimalism to the surreal, dreamlike dimension that permeates the entire work — suggesting an ambiguous beauty, hidden from view yet imprisoned within its own unattainable nature.