Richard Nonas installs iron parallelepipeds at Chiesa della Spina in Pisa

Richard Nonas, the American anthropologist and sculptor born in New York in 1936, has created a site-specific installation titled "…As light through fog… – Architectural memory pierced by art" at the Chiesa della Spina in Pisa. The work consists of 14 solid iron parallelepipeds placed 80 centimeters apart, rewriting trajectories and diagonals within the empty church. Nonas explores the relationship between humans and their environment, using the installation to experience architectural space. The church, stripped of its furnishings, has lost its original function and become an anthropological place of absence. Its structural lines remain as reference points for recovering its history and defending its precarious identity.