The Sun to Come
The Fondazione Made in Cloister presents “The Sun to Come”, the first chapter of a two-year program unfolding through a range of artistic practices and research initiatives centered around a reflection on the notion of rebirth in the face of impending catastrophes and current polycrises. The exhibition brings together international artists whose works navigate the delicate balance between creation and destruction, hope and catastrophe.
Drawing its title from an Italian partisan song, “The Sun to Come” reframes the sun not as a symbol of utopian promise, forever unfulfilled, but as an ambivalent force—both life-giving and destructive. The exhibition explores various modes of rebirth through material transformations, identity metamorphoses, and spatial reconfigurations.
The exhibition features works by mountaincutters, Alexandra Sukhareva, Clément Cogitore, Danh Vo, Hiwa K, Anastasia Ryabova, Renato Leotta, and Reena Spaulings, including newly commissioned pieces by Olga Tsvetkova and Carmela De Falco, each exploring the possibilities of regeneration in a post-utopian world. They investigate how matter, identity, and space can be reborn—whether through alchemical transmutation, parafictional authorship, or the reactivation of forgotten histories.
Created during her tenure as this year’s Artist in Residence at Fondazione Made in Cloister, Olga Tsvetkova’s Porta Capuana. Space as a Doubt (2025) is a site-specific dance performance mapping the emotional geography of Naples’ Porta Capuana neighborhood.
Carmela De Falco, a Neapolitan artist, debuts two newly commissioned works: reflecting, reflecting, the voice, a performance that transforms the Cloister into a resonant body with performers’ voices echoing the space’s monastic past, and Transmission, a sculptural piece referencing the building’s history as a wool mill.
The historic setting of the Cloister of Santa Caterina a Formiello, marking a decade since its reconversion, stands as a central figure in these explorations of rebirth. Once a Renaissance church cloister, later a wool mill, soap factory, garage, and carpenter’s workshop, the space itself embodies the idea of renewal, conjuring an assembly of voices that highlight its dual role as both figure and ground in this narrative.
