Antonio Marras on the Future, Genius Loci, and the Sacred

Fashion designer Antonio Marras shares his vision of the future as an archaeological ruin revealing lost hopes of the 21st century. He cites artistic influences from Rembrandt to Boltanski, emphasizing obsession with hands, men, animals, and threads. Marras describes his exhibitions as similar, driven by obsessions and fragments, with 'Nulla dies sine linea' at Triennale 2016 as his most representative. He interprets Genius loci not as a fixed place but as a confluence of stories and peoples (Phoenicians, Catalans, Greeks, Romans), celebrating impurity and nomadism. Marras rejects linear time, finding the ancient more surprising than the present, and sees art as a way to traverse stories and leave traces. He believes all art relates to the sacred as an encounter with beauty encompassing chaos and shadows, quoting Rilke. For the future, he imagines an architecture of lost hopes and emphasizes living in the here and now.