Jacopo Belloni
∗1992, Italy
Jacopo Belloni (1992, Ancona, Italy) lives and works between Rome and Geneva. His practice embraces installation, sculpture and performance, in a continuous attempt to blur the boundaries between animate and inanimate, reality and fiction, human and non-human. Belloni’s works often evolve and transform themselves into the exhibition space, underlining their inherent fragility and search for completeness. The artist’s practice seamlessly incorporates new materials and techniques each time - from silk to metal, from glass to foam rubber, in a never ending, open learning process.“I like it when the audience begins to question the life within things, blurring the lines between object and subject, between agent and acted upon, between life and death. These are the tensions I try to convey through my works, hoping that each person walks away with more questions about reality, rather than accepting it as a given.”
In the attic of an old school building in St. Cristina, Belloni presents Dormancy, an installation unfolding as a quiet funerary rite—one that mourns disappearance while holding space for renewal. The work is structured through two sculptural cycles that engage both the biological and emotional dimensions of suspension.
The first one, The Sleepers, consists of translucent glass forms containing seeds native to Val Gardena, gathered in collaboration with local communities. These fragile vessels resemble everyday carriers—bags, backpacks, purses—transformed into time capsules preserving dormant life. The second cycle, Nenie, introduces copper distillation devices that slowly extract calming essences from alpine plants, releasing fragrant droplets into the space.
Together, these works inhabit a state of stillness and latency. They invite visitors into a slowed perception, where dormancy is not absence, but a condition of endurance—an interval where life withdraws, prepares, and quietly persists.
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