Fosbury Architecture

Sguardi sull’Africa
Palazzo Gotico, Piazza Cavalli, Piacenza
May 2026

Entering Piacenza’s Palazzo Gotico, visitors cross into a civic medieval space reactivated as a contemporary forum. The exhibition brings together African sculptures, Moroccan paintings, contemporary works, and pieces by emerging African and diasporic artists through a unified spatial system that privileges dialogue over chronology.
The installation is organized around a tiered tribune inspired by the relational structure of a medieval choir. This vertical device creates a non-linear, ascending experience: African sculptures occupy different levels as autonomous yet interconnected presences, while Moroccan paintings on the upper tier shift the gaze toward a more frontal and contemplative dimension. The result is a perceptual sequence from sculptural physicality to pictorial reflection.
Constructed in warm pink fireproof MDF, the tribune establishes a measured contemporary presence that harmonizes with the stone architecture without imitating it. At the center of the monumental hall, a large table dedicated to workshops and educational activities becomes the civic heart of the exhibition, emphasizing participation, exchange, and shared knowledge.
The display avoids traditional museum hierarchies, inviting visitors to create their own paths through the works. A deliberately empty area at the end of the hall remains flexible for talks, performances, and public events. In this way, the project restores the Palazzo’s collective vocation while transforming the exhibition into a social space of encounter, dialogue, and shared identity.

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Curators: Paolo Giglio e 
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Sguardi D’Africa
Palazzo Gotico, Piazza Cavalli, Piacenza
2026

Entering Piacenza’s Palazzo Gotico, visitors cross into a civic medieval space reactivated as a contemporary forum. The exhibition brings together African sculptures, Moroccan paintings, contemporary works, and pieces by emerging African and diasporic artists through a unified spatial system that privileges dialogue over chronology.
The installation is organized around a tiered tribune inspired by the relational structure of a medieval choir. This vertical device creates a non-linear, ascending experience: African sculptures occupy different levels as autonomous yet interconnected presences, while Moroccan paintings on the upper tier shift the gaze toward a more frontal and contemplative dimension. The result is a perceptual sequence from sculptural physicality to pictorial reflection.
Constructed in warm pink fireproof MDF, the tribune establishes a measured contemporary presence that harmonizes with the stone architecture without imitating it. At the center of the monumental hall, a large table dedicated to workshops and educational activities becomes the civic heart of the exhibition, emphasizing participation, exchange, and shared knowledge.
The display avoids traditional museum hierarchies, inviting visitors to create their own paths through the works. A deliberately empty area at the end of the hall remains flexible for talks, performances, and public events. In this way, the project restores the Palazzo’s collective vocation while transforming the exhibition into a social space of encounter, dialogue, and shared identity.

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Curators: Paolo Giglio e 
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DUAL SHIFT
FW26

Titled DUAL SHIFT, the set for Solid Homme Fall/Winter 2026 in Paris spatializes the brand’s reflection on the multi-hyphenate condition of contemporary life, where one individual moves across parallel roles without changing identity. The scenography is conceived as a hybrid interior typology, staging the seamless transition between the ordered environment of the corporate office and the rougher, task-oriented atmosphere of the workshop.
This duality is articulated through the collision of two distinct spatial regimes. The office is rendered through alignment, repetition, and a controlled serial layout, establishing a clear architectural order. In contrast, the workshop introduces a more tactile register, defined by exposed utility, raw surfaces, and the visible traces of making. Rather than simply illustrating two settings, the project constructs a continuous inhabitable system in which discipline and manual process coexist within the same frame.
By translating the collection’s idea of the alter ego as an extension rather than a disguise into typological and material contrast, the set gives architectural form to a lifestyle shaped by overlapping routines, where professional structure, creative labor, and private repetition unfold within a single spatial syntax.

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DUAL SHIFT
FW26

Titled DUAL SHIFT, the set for Solid Homme Fall/Winter 2026 in Paris spatializes the brand’s reflection on the multi-hyphenate condition of contemporary life, where one individual moves across parallel roles without changing identity. The scenography is conceived as a hybrid interior typology, staging the seamless transition between the ordered environment of the corporate office and the rougher, task-oriented atmosphere of the workshop.
This duality is articulated through the collision of two distinct spatial regimes. The office is rendered through alignment, repetition, and a controlled serial layout, establishing a clear architectural order. In contrast, the workshop introduces a more tactile register, defined by exposed utility, raw surfaces, and the visible traces of making. Rather than simply illustrating two settings, the project constructs a continuous inhabitable system in which discipline and manual process coexist within the same frame.
By translating the collection’s idea of the alter ego as an extension rather than a disguise into typological and material contrast, the set gives architectural form to a lifestyle shaped by overlapping routines, where professional structure, creative labor, and private repetition unfold within a single spatial syntax.

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Art Directing:  (team: , )
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Casting: 
Hair: 
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