Morsi d’Arte presents “Inhabited Form”, a site-specific collective exhibition curated by Ilaria Giacobbi and Alberto Severino, hosted in the spaces of the Luxardo Hotel in Rome as part of Rome Art Week 2025.
The project transforms the hotel — an architecture of hospitality and transit — into a space of aesthetic experience, where art becomes a living presence, a dialogue, and a way of inhabiting the world.
Inhabited Form follows in the wake of the artistic research that, since the 1960s, has redefined the relationship between artwork, space, and viewer.
Ideally embracing the legacy of Jannis Kounellis and his installations within lived environments, the exhibition offers a contemporary reflection on the possibility of bringing art back into everyday life, transforming the hotel — a place of welcome and passage — into a site of aesthetic experience.
At a time when art is often confined to specialized or institutional spaces, Inhabited Form restores the original power of the artistic gesture as an act of presence.
The works — paintings, sculptures, videos, and mixed-media creations — inhabit the rooms and corridors of the hotel as living entities, capable of re-signifying the everyday environment and generating a new dialogue between creator and observer.
The very act of staying becomes an aesthetic experience: guests do not simply “visit” an exhibition — they live within it, sharing space with the works and moving among them as if inside a story.
This is an art that does not impose itself, but accompanies; that restores to the act of viewing the dimension of discovery and relationship, speaking to a broad, curious audience — not necessarily expert, but open to being moved by beauty.
In this sense, Inhabited Form is not only an exhibition project but a practice of cultural reactivation — an invitation to rethink the role of the artwork and the artist within the fabric of daily life, where art once again becomes what it has always been: a way of inhabiting the world.
RooBè, Claudio Loy, Battista Doneddu, Laura Casali, Lea Lachi, Davide Sertorelli, and Miriam Modena — the latter being the only video artist in the exhibition — represent the Italian voices of a narrative that interweaves sculpture, painting, mixed media, and video into a collective rhythm.
Their works take root within the hotel’s spaces as active presences: bodies that converse with the architecture, absorb its memory, and return it transformed.
Also featured are ten artists from Lithuania, participating for the first time in Rome Art Week, bringing an international perspective and a profound echo of their visual and anthropological culture.
Their creations — spanning painting, sculpture, and mixed media — converge toward form as a meeting point between matter and spirit, between memory and nature.
The works of Zita Tarasevičienė, Lilija Kavaliauskienė, Diana Behm, Egidijus Dapšas, Raimundas Dzimidavičius, Erika Šuklinskienė, Nijolė Jovarienė, Ina Adomaitienė, Ramutė Paulikaitė, and Lina Nikolaevė expand the exhibition’s breath, offering a poetic and collective landscape where every form is inhabited by signs, memories, and presences that resonate through space and life.
Across their surfaces and materials emerge the distinctive elements of their cultural landscape: the northern light, the sacredness of nature, and the fragile balance between permanence and dissolution.
Even when the image tends toward abstraction, a subtle connection with figuration remains — with that animistic and earthly spirit that runs through Baltic culture.
From this emerges a coherent whole, where material and symbolic components merge with the poetry of form, generating a visual fabric in which each work responds to the other in a continuous dialogue that transcends geographical and linguistic boundaries.
The artworks will be installed throughout the spaces of the Luxardo Hotel, becoming an integral part of the guest experience.
Inhabited Form thus unfolds as a diffuse art journey, designed to be lived by guests during their stay — a daily dialogue between art, architecture, and life.
Art is not something you visit — it’s something you inhabit.
Discover how to experience Inhabited Form up close by staying at the Luxardo Hotel.
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