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A sensory and spiritual journey through feminine forms, matter and the responsibility of creation: Nesite in the Basilica of Vicenza with Mater Materia – Women Artists for a Visionary Future. The exhibition intertwines art, architecture and sustainability through the works of nine Italian artists who, in the monumentality of Palladio’s space, restore matter to its original dimension: generative, welcoming, alive.

Mater Materia, art and architecture in relation

Art as a laboratory of coexistence, architecture as a living organism, matter as memory and possibility: on 11 October, Mater Materia – Women Artists for a Visionary Future opens to the public, a cultural manifesto dedicated to the dialogue between art, architecture and social sustainability.

Curated by Fortunato D’Amico and Rosa Cascone, the exhibition accompanies the 13th edition of the Dedalo Minosse International Prize for Architecture, creating an unprecedented intertwining of the language of contemporary art and the ethical design of architecture.

Nine artists – Paola Greggio, Pina Inferrera, Marica Moro, Daniela Pellegrini, Antonella Quacchia, Silvia Rastelli, Ludovica Sitajolo, Chiara Vellini and Giuditta Vettese – offer the public an in-depth exploration of the feminine as a generative matrix and foundation for a new vision of living.

The works, including light installations, sculptures and photographs, question the relationship between matter, space and consciousness, offering the public an immersive experience where art and nature, ethics and beauty meet.

Nesite’s contribution: matter as a gesture of care

Our presence at Mater Materia is a poetic and caring act, a way of inhabiting art through technology, transforming functionality into language. In this dialogue between idea and form, the Nesite system participates as a silent interpreter: the raised floor modules, designed and manufactured specifically for the exhibition, thus become planes of support and meaning, surfaces that welcome, preserve and amplify the relationship between the work and the space.

Not just simple technical elements, but carefully designed materials, capable of combining constructional precision with the sensitivity of artistic expression.

Underneath each installation, behind the perfection of the detail, lies a philosophy that has always guided the company — that of architecture that evolves and adapts, like an organism in relation to those who pass through it.

Thus, the raised floor becomes the foundation, threshold and breath of the exhibition.
An invisible but indispensable element that shows how material can become art and how technology, when designed with respect and vision, can become a form of beauty.