The Complex of Sant'Orsola, in the San Lorenzo district in the heart of Florence, is a huge space undergoing renovation after decades of neglect, to make it - also - a museum. In the meantime, it hosts resident artists who, inspired by the spaces, the history of the complex and the city, produce site-specific works displayed in fascinating and interesting exhibitions.
For Revelations, Sant'Orsola's second exhibition just over a year after the previous one, artists Juliette Minchin and Marta Roberti were invited to turn their personal gaze on the historical monument and create site-specific artworks.
Juliette Minchin is French and uses particular techniques for particular materials: wax, clay, wood, iron, liquids. Marta Roberti is Italian from Brescia, and tries her hand at various techniques, which always have nature as their central theme.
Inside the large monastery complex, their creative endeavours have occupied different places: the former apothecary's workshop and the outer church for Minchin, the cellars and inner church for Roberti.
Like the 2023 exhibition, Beyond the Walls of St. Orsola, this exhibition reveals and admirably unites the unfinished nature of the ancient convent (and the stories that ooze from its walls) with the original creations of the artists.
The exhibition opens on 28 June and ends on 27 October
