“Light behind unfinished traces” is the textile installation by Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball (1975), which with its monumental dimensions welcomes visitors inside the heart of the Museum, the Agora. Within the renewed vision of the museum, focused on contemporary themes and practices, MUDEC presents for autumn 2023 its second site-specific project, a prelude to the exhibition Exposure, scheduled for March 2024.

Working with the collections of MUDEC and the Ratti Foundation, artist Mariana Castillo Deball selected twelve textile fragments from different eras, based on which she then created her own watercolors. These images were then printed in large format on fabric and assembled with additional textile elements at the laboratories of NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, together with a group of students. In this way, three-dimensional "palimpsests" were created that shine with different meanings and stories.

For the first time, the intervention on the glass surface changes the very status of the architecture, transforming it into a reflective volume on which sculptures appear, made with light and semi-transparent fabrics. Natural light filters through this composition of textile fragments, creating a new cartography.

A program of guided visits to the collection deposits will allow the public to discover the pieces of the Museum reinterpreted by Deball in her installation, recreating the often invisible connection between the exhibition space and the museum heritage, which becomes accessible with free admission by mandatory reservation at the link.