Wandering fields is a place where to be geographers, and literally draw on the surface of the earth, or where to play in and with the ground, between the scale of the soil that we touch, and the earth that we draw.  Imagined for the halls of Assab One, a tribute to the plains we inhabit – the Pianura of the north of Italy, where we grew up, and the Low Lands of the Netherlands, where we now live – It is imagined as a sequence of fields arrayed into a vast drawing board. Here, loose materials – charcoal, sand, expanded clay, shells, hemp – can be drawn upon, sculpted, or mixed into new soils, through the actions of drawing and playing. This carpet of soils, minerals and seeds covers the halls of the former printing room, punctuated by material experiments, translating that same matter into materials and objects. Tools and games mediate the encounter between scales: petrified soils become man made rocks, while different wood species compose the rakes, compasses and pencils for visitors to draw with. Over time, through the comings and goings of guests and the sequences of drawing and deleting, materials will mix, producing new forms of soil. This new ground will become the material heritage of the project, loosely composed into a fertile heap, and gardened as a man made mound for the coming twelve months in a Milanese park.

Wandering fields is a project by Studio Ossidiana (Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini) with Pedro Daniel Pantaleone, Konstantin Beck, Ebru Guner; production Tomaello Bv. 

Supported by: 

In-kind sponsorships by:

Bacchi SPA
Fratelli Ingegnoli SRL
Fuoco e fiamme
TecnoCanapa by Senini