Concordia is a site-specific installation created during my art residency in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, in March 2026. Inspired by the world’s smallest theater, Teatro della Concordia (capacity 99 seats), it harmonizes the village’s hidden architectural details with mystical poetry. 

Concordia (Italian for “harmony”) features small painting frames hanged in Monte Castello di Vibio’s street walls. Two frames hide fragments from a painting in the village’s Catholic church, Parrocchia SS. Filippo e Giacomo. Another hides, beneath a theater-like red veil, a wall-painted cat fragment from Teatro della Concordia. 

Another frame displays a quote from Jacopone da Todi, the mystic poet from nearby Todi: “What happens to the drop of wine That you pour into the sea? … It is as if it never existed.” 

I also found small square openings in village walls where I veiled in red to evoke intimate theater stages. 

Four frames are gifted to and now showcased at Teatro della Concordia. 

Concordia enacts this through micro-theaters: frames as stages where the finite (village artifacts) merges into harmony, dissolving boundaries between self, art, and sacred space.

Titled after Teatro della Concordia, the piece examines harmony (concordia) as emerging from multiplicity. The small-scale theater motif whith red veils over them underscores communal gathering in confined spaces questioning how shared, hidden histories foster collective transcendence. It evokes the ancient notion of microcosm and macrocosm, where the smallest elements mirror a vast essence on a different scale. In the village, these chance discoveries of miniature “theaters” frames and veiled niches provoke a surprise that captures the mystic’s spiritual awakening, akin to a drop of wine merging into the sea.

A project supported by @Associazione Culturale Tangram.