Silvia Rastelli: When the Airport Becomes Interior Geography

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November 19, 2025

Among the creative voices that intertwine aesthetics, area, and the which means of journey, Silvia Rastelli brings a challenge to Malpensa Terminal 1 that transforms transit right into a contemplative expertise. Stellar Flights. Portraits for the Four Directions isn’t just an exhibition, however a sensorial map that inhabits the structure: faces, wooden, and light-weight assemble a panorama during which identification turns into geography. Inside ARTHUBthe exhibition area designed by Chiara Alberghinaartwork measures itself in opposition to the rhythm of the airport, a symbolic place of exits and conferences, to supply the general public a visible reflection on path, relationships and human plurality.

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Silvia Rastelli: Piacenza-born and multifaceted

Silvia Rastelli, born in Piacenza in 1983, is a multifaceted artist who combines dance and portray in a singular language. Raised in her father’s workshop, she transforms faces into maps of the unconscious: her figures, suspended in an enigmatic gaze, change into symbols of variety and cultural dialogue. A dancer, performer, and paintershe has exhibited in Italy and main European capitals. Today, she lives and creates within the Piacenza countryside, the place she continues to domesticate her creative imaginative and prescient.

A phrase from the curator, Fortunato D’Amico

The exhibition, open 24 hours a day, is the brainchild of Luciano Bolzoni and is curated by Fortunato D’Amico. “Stellar Flights. Portraits for the Four Directions orients an moral precept that acknowledges distinction as a generative matrix. Faces change into indicators of a planetary system during which the plurality of traits, cultures, and histories composes the horizon of a shared current in its interconnections,” explains D’Amico. “Silvia Rastelli’s artwork is a gathering platform, the area during which coexistence finds path and opens trajectories towards a civilization based on relationships.” We spoke with the artist concerning the exhibition.

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Choose 4 phrases to explain the exhibition.

North, South, East, West: the 4 cardinal factors, 4 instructions which have a powerful symbolism for me. When I started this work, I used to be in Vigevano, within the presence of works associated to Ludovico il Moro. There, North was born: an orientation, an internal path. I used to be fascinated by how, within the Pala Sforzesca, Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d’Este have been kneeling on the sides, whereas their two kids appeared virtually like small, autonomous creatures, disconnected from their dad and mom. From there, a mirrored image on our “polar level”on the path we select to entrust ourselves to. At the tip of the set up, I found that the exhibition area in Terminal 1 has the identical orientation because the 4 cardinal factors.

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What is the cardinal level you’re most linked to?

The South, which for me represents roots, variety. My faces are like constellations that talk with one another: every distinctive, every completely different, but a part of the identical universe. I additionally included three mirrors within the exhibition, as a result of I imagine {that a} portrait just isn’t a easy replica, however a mirrored image. When you look within the mirror, you analyze your self: your altering physique, your temper, the sunshine in your face. Even your voice is a mirrored image, and we’re not used to listening to it. For me, a mirrored image is a second of fact, not judgment. We dwell in an period during which social media pushes us to seem filtered, altered. The mirror, however, has no reactions: it accepts you, and will help you settle for your self. This is why I select faces with a powerful visible identification: I do not work on conformity, however on concord between completely different people. It’s not pop artwork: there all the things turns into serial. I do the alternative. I take advantage of comparable modules to supply a typical studying stage, however every face is exclusive.

What do the opposite two characterize?

The East is the journey. Here I added birds, understood as guiding spirits. Years in the past I labored on Dante: on his journey, birds have been presences that accompanied him out of Hell, towards salvation. In my case, they’re feminine guiding spirits, symbols of inspiration. To stabilize—or destabilize—the environment, I added flowers: earthly components, contrasting with the sky. I’m very within the intersection between earth and air, between the human and the non secular. I’m not a believer within the non secular sense, however I’ve a powerful spirituality linked to artwork. I imagine that artwork all the time lives in contradiction: it speaks of the current however takes us into the long run, and makes us reinterpret the previous.

The Westhowever, is the sundown, future. It is essentially the most meditative a part of the journey, linked to my reinterpretation of Eve. I started this work after years of reflection on the connection between aesthetics and judgment: after I was a younger dancer, I used to be typically judged for my look, and I skilled how burdensome aesthetic condemnation could be, particularly for a girl. One day, trying up the phrase “sin” within the dictionary, I observed that it’s nonetheless linked to a feminine title. Eve, then, turns into the image of an historical gesture that at the moment we are able to rethink with out moralizing: the will for information. There is not any non secular criticism in my work, however quite an try at symbolic rebirth.

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Stellar Flights is about up in a spot of passage. Why ought to a traveler take the time to cease and comply with the coordinates of the faces?

Indeed, we requested ourselves, along with the curator, whether or not it was actually value holding this exhibition in a spot of passage. It’s an imposing challenge, a “colossus,” however on the identical time very introspective, arrange in a spot of passage the place all the things is fleeting.

Precisely due to its brevity, the exhibition capabilities like that espresso you drink after a protracted journey: it is the very best on this planet. I consider a scene I noticed: a mom together with her baby and a trolley, adopted by a Sherpa, stopping in the course of a central hall. The baby seems to be round, the mom fixes her hair: a second’s pause amid the frenzy of departure.

What I would like is exactly this: to supply a high quality breaka pause in time the place one can breathe and replicate. Today we’re used to operating, to dwelling in very fast fragments, and I attempt to seize that single second, that “coffee” which represents a small present, a capsule of time granted to the spectator.

What do you search for in your work?

When I went to museums, I’d skip landscapes and nonetheless lifes and go straight to the faces. That element, that fragment, fascinated me; I felt it contained one thing highly effective. In my work, I search coherence: I do not like creating works only for the ultimate impact. I modify first, internally, and solely then does my work change. I begin extra from philosophy than from the fabricas a result of I need to perceive what I need to talk, the place I need to go.

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Hosted by SEA Milan Airports, the challenge is sponsored and supported by the Sopramaresotto Department of Culture, the Pensare globalmente e attuando locale Department of Culture, the L2Arte artwork gallery, and the UN1CA multisensory communications company.

Exhibition Information:
Milan Malpensa Airport, Terminal 1, Food Court Area

The exhibition is open from October 12, 2025, to January 7, 2026, 24 hours a day, free admission.

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