Letizia Cariello
Centro Pecci, Prato
Letizia Cariello’s installation Hallenbad Project, 2000–2003, inaugurated the Centro Pecci’s project room, a newly opened showcase for emerging artists and part of an overall renovation of the museum. Cariello transformed the space into a swimming pool, coloring the walls blue. Pervaded by the sound of breathing (audio installation by HB Sound), the “pool” contained a sort of sentry box, also blue, containing three photographic triptychs (“Hallenbad Portraits,” 2002–2003) and a DVD projection (Hallenbad, 2003). The latter consisted of three more or less simultaneous sequences in a loop, showing