BEL VEDERE 2022
Installation
Digital design printed on 4 PVC tarpaulins
With Bel-Vedere, Jacomella Bonola challenges the politics of vision. Installed in a roof terrace where the exterior view is deliberately obstructed by red panels, the work denies the viewer the expected panorama. Inside, large tarpaulins printed with silhouettes of extinct and endangered plants envelop the space, transforming absence into a presence.
This inversion of the “beautiful view” questions the very act of looking, how seeing can also mean not seeing, how beauty depends on what is excluded. By turning architecture into a site of blindness, Bel-Vedere invites a reconsideration of perception, privilege, and ecological loss. It is both a memorial to the vanished and a meditation on the limits of visibility.
Credits: © Patricia Jacomella Bonola