The Sky in a Room, domestic landscape and synthetic fine arts

The exhibition displays the re-edited studies carried out by the LAPIS Laboratory between 2016 and 2023 in a series of allegorical diptychs laid out in thematic rooms. The left panel is a Reconstruction of the original painting questioning the true essence of the reality represented, exposing perspective corrections, omissions or other choices made by painters to bend all physical and optical phenomena to their own advantage in order to fine-tune their visual narratives. The right panel is a Deconstruction work which in conversation with the Reconstruction, performs variations on the technical elements that characterize it. Exploring the relationship between interiors and exteriors, LAPIS discourse takes on the Baconian paradigm that knowledge passes through representation by converting the architectural envelope into a scenic machine. A device that questions the domestic, the everyday, the banal, and addresses the narrative role assumed by spatial sequences. The unprecedented vision that emerges from the images in the exhibition, finally deprived of human presence, offers architecture the opportunity to laconically speak about itself as the narrator and main protagonist, laying itself bare in all its beautiful ordinariness and reaffirming its presence to a public that had mostly ignored it.