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Neve (snow), 2008 solo exhibition at the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea curated by Annalisa Retico, Rome, March 2008. This space is a kind of huge corridor shaped in an arc, punctuated by six columns, ornamented with two tracks of neon lights, a floor of marble tiles and three entrance doors; to sum up, this is a “white cube” which looks nothing like a “white cube” and whose features are already sufficient to exhaust the eyes of the viewers. Therefore, I use the space itself as the raw material for my intervention. Neve (snow in Italian) is the result of a gesture both simple and difficult. Using a very smooth sandpaper, I caress the whole space. Ceiling, walls, columns, gently shed their outer layer, which “falls” and covers the floor with a fine white powder. A snowy landscape emerges both in and from the white cube of the museum. The visitors leave their traces in it, departing with a little of this space clinging to their shoes. At the end of exhibition, there is less space than at the beginning; regardless, a feeling of emptiness persists. Photo: Linda Leccese