THE VILLA
Concept and Realization by: María Angélica Guerrero
(Work in progress)
THE VILLA is an exhibition project that pretends the visitors to be immersed in the world of
Boccaccio’s masterpiece, The Decameron. The exhibition is developed in five moments that
are meant to be a sort of journey to visitors in pursue of “themselves” the great utopia.
In that sense, THE VILLA, is a fictive world in which those who get in accepted to be
transformed for as long as the journey lasts, only to be back to their own reality at the end.
Absurd, as it is existence itself.
Boccaccio portrays humanity through a hundred stories through argumentative dialectics
that makes use of oppositional but universal concepts, such as: Boredom. Desire, Sorrow,
Love, and Freedom.
There is precisely where this journey begins: in the room dedicated to Boredom,
understanding it as a starting point to creativity, desire, but also to evil, so that the
compelling desire to get out of the lethargy and boredom, is the driving force to human
existence.
Scale model Boredom
Real Scale Model Boredom
Costume.
Costume
Costume
Costume
Scale model Sorrow
Scale model Sorrow
Scale model Sorrow
Scale model Desire
Scale model Desire
Scale model Desire
Scale model Love
Scale model Love
Scale model Freedom