The ARCIPELAGO artists hosted by the Foundation
The Fedrigoni Fabriano Foundation had the pleasure of hosting the artists involved in the project “ARCIPELAGO. Spazi Ritrovati”, promoted by the Zoe Association.
Young creatives under 35 from the region—working in plastic and installation arts, digital art, and music production—selected through a public call, engaged in dialogue with some of the most iconic sites of Marche’s industrial archaeology to create a collective work capable of capturing their spirit.
From the Cabernardi Sulphur Mines to the Hoffmann Kiln in Serra de’ Conti, all the way to the Historic Complex of the Miliani Paper Mills in Fabriano, home to the Foundation and the FABRIANO Paper Mills: places rich in memory, transformation, and cultural stratification, becoming fertile ground for new imaginaries.
During their residency, the artists immersed themselves in the history of Fabriano’s papermaking tradition, exploring spaces, tools, and manufacturing techniques that span from the Middle Ages to the present day. A journey into an ancient craft that continues to inspire creativity: paper as material, gesture, narrative; as a source of inspiration for those who reinterpret its value today through contemporary languages.
Places, people, archives, and historic machinery thus became spaces of imagination for new artistic and collective processes, in a continuous dialogue between past and future, memory and experimentation. An experience that reaffirms, once again, that the history of paper is not merely a heritage to preserve, but a living energy capable of generating new visions.
