Equilibri Precari

2025 – Ongoing

Equilibri Precari explores one of the most familiar objects of everyday life: the supermarket trolley. Originally designed to carry goods, it is transformed into the base of monumental vertical sculptures made from accumulations of ordinary objects. Books, televisions, tyres, fire extinguishers, sports equipment and other consumer products are stacked into precarious compositions that appear simultaneously stable and on the verge of collapse. This tension becomes the central metaphor of the project: the more we accumulate, the more fragile the balance becomes. Each sculpture investigates a different aspect of contemporary consumption. The chosen objects are never random; they represent habits, obsessions, desires and collective behaviours that define modern life. The trolley loses its or