Una Vaga Sagoma (2025) reflects on both individual and collective perceptions of images embedded in public spaces in southern Canton Ticino (Switzerland), in relation to the surrounding landscape. Physical traces of local legends, anecdotes, and journalistic accounts intertwine with Rorschach-like marble patterns and contemporary debates on public sculpture. Together, they reveal how imagination shapes and sculpts the territory, exposing underlying socio-political dynamics and addressing the extractivist human activity of local marble quarries. Moving between legitimation, acceptance, and censorship, the film invites viewers to reflect on the creation and interpretation of form: From which social positions are forms perceived, and how? How do our social contexts influence the reading of images and, ultimately, the landscape?
Giorgia Piffaretti
Giorgia Piffaretti (1989) is a Swiss Italian multimedia artist working between Amsterdam and Switzerland. Her work addresses social and political themes with a particular interest on feminist issues and hidden forms of oppression. Moving across fine arts and film, she has participated in several international exhibitions and film festivals.
Nicolle Bussien
Nicolle Aïcha Bussien (1991) is a Swiss multidisciplinary artist based in Zurich. Her research-led practice probes belonging, exclusion, resistance and safety, confronting classism and structural racism. Working across film, photography, installation and text, she exhibits internationally.
What do you see when you stare at a rock? For some people, a stone is nothing more than a hard, still, and lifeless object. However, other people are able to see something beyond its form: a faint face, a body part, or other small parts that feel achingly human. A Vague Outline (Giorgia Piffaretti,…
