https://bordonaro.eu bordonaro Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:11:58 +0000 https://bordonaro.eu en https://bordonaro.eu/Landing-Home Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:11:58 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/Landing-Home <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7e013e7fafd64c05942b0a16d6a0709f6eef718b7b2eef51d18ffb6ac2f3a78/20190110_HD_216641.jpg" data-mid="241401804" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7e013e7fafd64c05942b0a16d6a0709f6eef718b7b2eef51d18ffb6ac2f3a78/20190110_HD_216641.jpg" /> <img width="4822" height="4727" width_o="4822" height_o="4727" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a1144fae6521333832ed61984eeec1d3a9c03eaeed398c23dafad4dec2eb00c/20x20-251107_111706.jpg" data-mid="241401534" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a1144fae6521333832ed61984eeec1d3a9c03eaeed398c23dafad4dec2eb00c/20x20-251107_111706.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f3208f55e3495a10295987b5a729550f1fdfde5ea0b80e512135619a92f37ce/DSC05145.jpg" data-mid="241401803" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f3208f55e3495a10295987b5a729550f1fdfde5ea0b80e512135619a92f37ce/DSC05145.jpg" /> <img width="5389" height="5352" width_o="5389" height_o="5352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/290297027a2d56a0e0c8b6ee214989140927094d4a8fa962445fa02753eb0593/20x20-251107_111326.jpg" data-mid="241401577" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/290297027a2d56a0e0c8b6ee214989140927094d4a8fa962445fa02753eb0593/20x20-251107_111326.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a4b65e1c41d18e1c11f6284d58c5da7aa4cb8a3aa9353be889b553dd4646f87/DSC02114.jpg" data-mid="241401918" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a4b65e1c41d18e1c11f6284d58c5da7aa4cb8a3aa9353be889b553dd4646f87/DSC02114.jpg" /> <img width="5254" height="5310" width_o="5254" height_o="5310" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cad0cae494542e0fdba4149cd7dbbd42fb87bd2b9d7ae8026fb23621ab6dff2f/20x20-251107_111401.jpg" data-mid="241401934" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cad0cae494542e0fdba4149cd7dbbd42fb87bd2b9d7ae8026fb23621ab6dff2f/20x20-251107_111401.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e519b1016c12ffde3da2f6ec976b2036d6e22872073364303f336e55ac3fd579/IMG_4017.jpg" data-mid="241401870" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e519b1016c12ffde3da2f6ec976b2036d6e22872073364303f336e55ac3fd579/IMG_4017.jpg" /> <img width="4672" height="4565" width_o="4672" height_o="4565" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/490a9fdb7165c6411fd5cadc166a0a2683ae578691437183b8a81ecae6d22c3c/19.8x19-20251107_111643.jpg" data-mid="241401535" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/490a9fdb7165c6411fd5cadc166a0a2683ae578691437183b8a81ecae6d22c3c/19.8x19-20251107_111643.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c564b7ef48100b0f2910268a172c0e883595c3407a39b8d0f7b2f63770b5cc4/IMG_6699.jpg" data-mid="241401896" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c564b7ef48100b0f2910268a172c0e883595c3407a39b8d0f7b2f63770b5cc4/IMG_6699.jpg" /> https://bordonaro.eu/Contacts Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:36:50 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/Contacts lorenzo.bordonaro@gmail.com Instagram: lorenzobordonaroart+351 934024993 (Whatsapp) https://bordonaro.eu/About Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:32:46 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/About I hold a BA+MA in Philosophy/Anthropology (Università di Torino, Italy) and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology (ISCTE, Lisbon). I studied painting and drawing at Ar.Co (Lisbon) and Sculpture at the Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts. My artistic work initially bridged anthropology and art in deeply meaningful ways, combining ethnographic research and creative expression and blending analytical insight with aesthetic and political engagement. I carried out research across Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Portugal, and Brazil on issues like childhood, youth violence, creativity, and migration and channeled this knowledge into public art—transforming social commentary and political awareness into tangible, site-specific installations. More recently, my focus shifted on the relationship between humans and the natural environment, suggesting an evolving trajectory toward ecological themes. The award-winning Haven&nbsp;sculpture in Braga sounds like a significant milestone, especially given its focus on public art and sustainability. One of my latest work,&nbsp;Singing Platform,&nbsp;is a site-specific installation created in 2023 in Iquitos, Peru, in collaboration with Shipibo shamans. This structure is designed to be placed within the natural environment, serving as a space for meditation, reflection, and connection with the forest. It embodies my commitment to fostering a harmonious relationship between humans and nature, providing visitors with an opportunity to engage in contemplation and experience a sense of communion with their surroundings. Over the past few years, alongside my work with installations, I’ve felt a deep and quiet pull back toward the simplicity of drawing and painting. These practices, which had once been part of my early creative language, have re-emerged—not as a retreat, but as an expansion—woven into the fabric of my daily meditation and the disciplined grace of yoga. They have become a different kind of inquiry, a more intimate dialogue with the natural world. This connection is not only about portraying nature as a subject, but about entering into a state of presence with it—translating its rhythms, silences, and textures through gestures that are spontaneous and unfiltered. My hand moves without calculation, following an instinct that feels older than thought, closer to breath. It is a process akin to the spirit of Japanese Zen painting, where the act itself becomes a form of meditation—one that seeks not to capture, but to commune. In these moments, the boundary between the inner landscape and the outer one begins to dissolve. Drawing and painting become a way of being in the world—not as an observer, but as a participant in its quiet unfolding. ARTISTIC CV (if you are interested in my publications as an anthropologist click here) Solo shows and projects 2023 Singing Platform. Iquitos, Peru.2020 Refúgio. Uma escultura habitável. Premio Arte Pública e Sustentabilidade, ZET Gallery and DST Group, Braga, Portugal.2020 A Home Made by Drawing: Amazonia, FBAUL, Lisbon. Curated by Ângela Ferreira. 2019 A Home Made by Drawing,&nbsp;B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy2019 Omi i kus’é, um pedra? FCSH Universidade Nova, Lisbon.2018Sobreposições / Galeria da Biblioteca UTAD / Vila Real / Portugal2017 If you dig you always find the sea at the end / Manifesta 12 (waiting for Manifesta programme) / Palermo / Italy2016 Crash / Dimora OZ / Palermo / Italy2013 The keycutter house (Casa das Chaves) / Mouraria Neighbourhood / Lisbon / Portugal2012Ghetto Six / 6 de Maio Neighborhood / Amadora / Portugal2012. Somos nós, Calabacera, Praia, Cabo Verde Group shows 2020 Field/Works: Kaleidoscopic Activity Between Anthropology and Art, Online Exhibition, EASA 2020. 2019 A Vida é um Emaranhado de Nós, ZET Gallery, Braga, Portugal2019 I Bienal da Fábrica. Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal.2019 Premio SGPCM-FBAUL, Lisboa, Portugal2019 Public # Intimacy, B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy.2019 Materia Suoni Visioni, B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy.2018 Materia Suoni Visioni Fondazione Cá Foscari, Venezia, Italy.2018 Ruins / Decadenza e Rovina, Castello di Duino, Duino, Italy2018 Vanitas # Memento Mori, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy2018 18th IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) World Congress, Photo Exhibition, Florianópolis, Brazil. 2018 DIN A4, BBK Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany2018 PintaMalasaña 2018, Madrid, Spain2018 Restart 360º, RESTART, Lisbon, Portugal2017 Impermanence, B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy.2017 Manifesta 12 (School in Tandem programme), Palermo, Italy2016 Gangcity / 15th Venice Architecture Biennale / Venezia / Italy2016 Exprimint 7 / Galeria Zé de Dome / Aracaju / Brazil2016 BIAS - Biennale d’Arte Sacra e delle Religioni dell’Umanità / Palermo / Italy2016 Ritrovarsi / Festival Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea / Sciacca / Italy2015 INATEL Foundation Finalists’ Exhibition / Galeria da Associação Portuguesa de Escultura e Pintura / Lisbon / Portugal2015 Wang Festival de Arte Urbano / Montevideo / Uruguay2015 Forum das Arte Visuais / Galeria J. Inácio / Aracaju / Brazil2015 SM15 / Front Art Space / New York / USA2015 Incubarte 7 Festival Internacional de Arte / Valencia / Spain2014 Passeio Literário da Graça / Lisbon / Portugal 2013 NOOR - Mouraria Light Walk / Lisbon / Portugal2013 &nbsp;Ethnographic Terminalia 2013: Exhibition as Residency–Art, Anthropology, Collaboration / Art Incubator in Washington Park / Chicago / USA2013 Independentes / Galeria Inma Ruiz / Lisbon / Portugal2012 Woundscapes. Suffering, Creativity and bare life / Museu da Cidade / Lisbon / Portugal Awards 2020 Premio Arte Pública e Sustentabilidade, ZET Gallery and DST Group, Braga, Portugal2019 I-Portunus mobility grant (Creative Europe)2019 Prémio SGPCM-FBAUL, Honorable mention.2015 INATEL Foundation Visual Art Prize / Finalist / Lisbon / Portugal2015 SM15 / Finalist / Front Art Space / New York / USA2012 Muda o Bairro Prize (Change the neighbourhood) / First Prize / Associação Renovar a Mouraria and Lisbon Municipality (CML) / Lisbon / Portugal Publications 2019 A Vida é um Emaranhado de Nós / Catalogue / ZET Gallery, Braga, Portugal2019 Prémio SGPCM-FBAUL / Catalogue / Lisbon /Portugal2017 SM15 / Catalogue / New York / USA2016 BIAS 2016 / Catalogue / Palermo / Italy2013 Ethnographic Terminalia 2013: Exhibition as Residency–Art, Anthropology, Collaboration / Catalogue / Chicago / USA2012 Woundscapes / Catalogue / Lisbon / Portugal Biennals 2017 Manifesta 12 (waiting for Manifesta programme) / Palermo / Italy2016 Venice Architecture Biennale / Venezia / Italy2016 BIAS - Biennale d’Arte Sacra e delle Religioni dell’Umanità / Palermo / Italy Artistic direction and curatorship 2019 Antropologia, paisagem, sentidos: pesquisa e arte de/na paisagem. Obras de Marcelo Moscheta e Seila Fernández Arconada. Museu da Terra de Miranda, Miranda do Douro. Curator.2019. XIV Encontros de Primavera – 13-16 Junho 2019. Picote (Miranda do Douro). Curador.2018. XIII Encontros de Primavera – 7-10 Junho 2018. Picote (Miranda do Douro). Curador.2017-2020. Urban Art Programme Coordinator. XALABAS. Projecto Comunidades no Centro – A Identidade Local como Fator de Desenvolvimento do Turismo Sustentável (UE Funded Project, contract CSO-LA/2017/386-458). Praia, Cape Verde.2016. OcupAção. Santa Maria Squat Community. Aracaju (SE), Brazil. March-May2015. Nova Liberdade III. Fragmentos de vida, arte e etnografia. CULTART, Aracaju (SE), Brazil, 15-23 May2014. Passeio Literário da Graça (funded by Lisbon Municipality), Lisbon (Portugal)2013. Mouraria Imagined by Children, (funded by Lisbon Municipality), 18-20 July.2013. NOOR - Mouraria Light Walk (funded by Lisbon Municipality), 18-20 July. https://bordonaro.eu/Singing-platform Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:46:39 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/Singing-platform Singing Platform with Maestro Richard Ramírez Pëkon Kuppi 2023&nbsp; Iquitos, Peru <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f3208f55e3495a10295987b5a729550f1fdfde5ea0b80e512135619a92f37ce/DSC05145.jpg" data-mid="230368650" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f3208f55e3495a10295987b5a729550f1fdfde5ea0b80e512135619a92f37ce/DSC05145.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8842c3c8989af6ba743b194f43899a56283f6f225e58ba38553c61981e3d2143/DSC05108.jpg" data-mid="230368649" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8842c3c8989af6ba743b194f43899a56283f6f225e58ba38553c61981e3d2143/DSC05108.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a404db6ab4519e79de205e9cbc36e507cd75d22b7b757a84f43ee3805f64bcc/DSC05099.jpg" data-mid="230368648" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a404db6ab4519e79de205e9cbc36e507cd75d22b7b757a84f43ee3805f64bcc/DSC05099.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0147c9624b32a31e942323189c1fb83097ff63aabfa3ca95d21e3cbd6a41a9d5/IMG-20230925-WA0012.jpg" data-mid="230368651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/0147c9624b32a31e942323189c1fb83097ff63aabfa3ca95d21e3cbd6a41a9d5/IMG-20230925-WA0012.jpg" /> Singing Platform is a profound artistic and spiritual project that embodies my ongoing exploration of the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Created during the Amazonica 23 residency in Iquitos, Peru, the platform serves as a space for meditation, reflection, and connection with the surrounding forest. Rooted in anthropological research and personal experience, the work reflects my engagement with Shipibo culture and its rich cosmovision, which profoundly influenced the conceptual and aesthetic dimensions of the project. The encounter with the Shipibo culture and Maestro Richard Ramírez Pëkon Kuppi added a transformative layer to my original idea. The Shipibo are renowned for their intricate geometric designs known as kené, which carry deep spiritual significance. According to Shipibo mythology, these designs originated from Ronin, the Great Boa of the World, who sang the drawings into existence, forming the universe and connecting all living beings. The mythical time of unity represented by the kené was fractured due to human failings, dividing the world into three realms: the sky, the earth, and the underworld. During ayahuasca ceremonies, Shipibo shamans use songs called icaros to reconnect with this primal unity. The icaros are considered sonic expressions of the kené, creating a link between sound and vision, between the spiritual and physical worlds. The shaman, as a master of the icaros, can "sing" the appropriate kené into a patient’s body to heal and restore harmony. This sacred relationship between sound, design, and healing became central to my work. Under the guidance of Maestro Richard, I participated in ayahuasca ceremonies, experiencing firsthand the Shipibo understanding of interconnectedness. Inspired by these visions, I recreated a complex Shipibo design on the meditation platform. When seated at the center of the sculpture, the user is physically surrounded by this intricate pattern, which extends outward into the forest—symbolically reconnecting them with the natural world and the mythical dimension of unity. The platform becomes a vessel for communion, where the boundary between self and nature dissolves, evoking the Shipibo vision of a harmonious cosmos. The construction of the platform reflects my sensitivity to environmental and ethical issues. I sourced wood through Peruvian government-approved sawmills to ensure compliance with sustainable forestry practices—a necessary consideration in a region plagued by illegal logging. Furthermore, I embraced the natural impermanence of the work. Wood in the Amazon will inevitably be reclaimed by the forest, broken down by insects, fungi, and rain. Rather than resisting this process, I see it as an essential part of the work’s life cycle. The platform is designed to be reintegrated into the ecosystem, reinforcing the theme of interconnectedness and the natural cycle of creation and decay. Singing Platform exemplifies my broader artistic vision: using art as a bridge between human consciousness and the natural world. By merging anthropological insight with artistic practice, the project invites visitors to experience a state of non-separation—a return to the primal unity envisioned in Shipibo mythology. The platform stands as both an aesthetic object and a spiritual tool, dissolving the artificial boundary between humanity and nature, art and ritual, body and cosmos. https://bordonaro.eu/Refugio Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:23:31 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/Refugio Refúgio - Haven 2020&nbsp; steel, polyester rope, 5.1 x 5.1 x 5.65 m&nbsp; Parque da Nossa Senhora da Guadalupe, Braga, Portugal ART IN PUBLIC SPACE &amp; SUSTAINABILITY award, promoted by the dst group and zet gallery with the support of IB-S Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability of the University of Minho <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5fae25cb13b82cdfa1b651b92f79be5173cff083c37baccc7264771829dbeed/20190110_HD_216629.jpg" data-mid="230365587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5fae25cb13b82cdfa1b651b92f79be5173cff083c37baccc7264771829dbeed/20190110_HD_216629.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58d3b2beb13e4bf3d2899edc816bff150e970b77bcab75ccdede49bd0f2c8f93/20190110_HD_216658.jpg" data-mid="230365592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58d3b2beb13e4bf3d2899edc816bff150e970b77bcab75ccdede49bd0f2c8f93/20190110_HD_216658.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7e013e7fafd64c05942b0a16d6a0709f6eef718b7b2eef51d18ffb6ac2f3a78/20190110_HD_216641.jpg" data-mid="230365590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7e013e7fafd64c05942b0a16d6a0709f6eef718b7b2eef51d18ffb6ac2f3a78/20190110_HD_216641.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5cdddc94dbfe8c0b52f2880e0719f9d1c1b01418ef4095835c0b110f278ca97/20201003_HD_219014.jpg" data-mid="230365595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5cdddc94dbfe8c0b52f2880e0719f9d1c1b01418ef4095835c0b110f278ca97/20201003_HD_219014.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75b6c666271abbe71de11f841a7372f368db7e37e757dc9dd92950fcc87720b0/20201003_HD_218996.jpg" data-mid="230365593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75b6c666271abbe71de11f841a7372f368db7e37e757dc9dd92950fcc87720b0/20201003_HD_218996.jpg" /> REFÚGIO is an accessible sculptural space — a sanctuary within the city, inviting us to dream of new ways of living and being in the world, open and porous to the rhythms of nature. It dissolves the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, offering a place where art becomes an act of relational awareness, a site of reflection on the interwoven lives of all species and the fragile place of humanity among them. A space for gathering and meditation, REFÚGIO reimagines the ancient form of the cloister, with its inward garden — a familiar echo in the religious architecture of Europe, and particularly in Braga, where the cloisters of the Cathedral and the Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães stand as silent witnesses to centuries of contemplation. Yet REFÚGIO is not built for human beings alone. Its architecture welcomes the unpredictable colonization of local flora and fauna, creating a living shelter shared by many forms of life. Openings in the structure allow sunlight, air, and moisture to drift through, while offering protection from rain and sun. Throughout the work, spaces have been carved for birds to nest, while fertile pockets in walls and ceilings nurture endemic plants that will, over time, embrace and transform the structure in their own wild, spontaneous way. Within the sculpture, a web of red thread — a signature element in my recent works — stretches from the garden floor to the highest points, forming a symbolic cocoon. It offers visitors a sense of welcome and protection, while quietly inviting occupation by insects, particularly arachnids, and climbing plants that will weave themselves into its fragile net. REFÚGIO was born from a dialogue with its surroundings — the city of Braga, its history, its architecture — and with the materials at hand. Constructed entirely from unused resources donated by Bysteel of the DST Group, its final form was not predetermined, but emerged through a process of adaptation, embracing a philosophy of upcycling and sustainability, allowing the work to grow organically from what was available.Fotos @ Hugo Delgado&nbsp; https://bordonaro.eu/Amazonia-A-home-made-by-drawing Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:39:12 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/Amazonia-A-home-made-by-drawing A Home Made by Drawing: Amazonia curated by Ângela Ferreira Capela da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa 2020 &nbsp; <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bb612deb3afe04946325a5cf8ab43d0949399b565692fbc8036fddae3efafb1/DSC02082.jpg" data-mid="230370942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bb612deb3afe04946325a5cf8ab43d0949399b565692fbc8036fddae3efafb1/DSC02082.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a4b65e1c41d18e1c11f6284d58c5da7aa4cb8a3aa9353be889b553dd4646f87/DSC02114.jpg" data-mid="230370944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a4b65e1c41d18e1c11f6284d58c5da7aa4cb8a3aa9353be889b553dd4646f87/DSC02114.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e1c86682c28ef834b605ce0d84cf6d4036fc620a246475298d467dd3dacb556/DSC02137.jpg" data-mid="230370945" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e1c86682c28ef834b605ce0d84cf6d4036fc620a246475298d467dd3dacb556/DSC02137.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d91ef6cdb035acbb9d700c512ac74323c254407092cde752fb5184d15462bbee/DSC02096.jpg" data-mid="230370943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d91ef6cdb035acbb9d700c512ac74323c254407092cde752fb5184d15462bbee/DSC02096.jpg" /> A Home Made by Drawing is an ongoing art-research and anthropological project that explores the fundamental human impulse to dwell, alongside the evolving concepts of home, shelter, and belonging. It investigates the intricate tensions between mobility and rootedness, identity and transformation. In this installation, I reimagine and reconstruct photographic fragments and architectural memories gathered during my formative journey to the Amazon rainforest in 2014. These remnants serve as portals into a space where memory and imagination converge. The work navigates the complex dialectic between home and horizon, enclosure and openness, the finite and the infinite—producing a restless, unresolved oscillation between contraction and expansion, between the longing to remain and the call to depart. A Home Made by Drawing envisions dwelling not as a static condition, but as a fluid, nomadic practice—a continuous negotiation between permanence and impermanence, self and landscape. It imagines identity and belonging as landscapes in perpetual flux, shaped by the forces of movement, memory, and desire. Through the creation of fragile, ephemeral architectures, I construct symbolic nomadic structures—tentative shelters that embody the delicate pull between settling and wandering, between being and becoming. These structures are not just physical forms but metaphorical spaces, where the anchoring comfort of home coexists with the boundless, uncontainable urge to journey beyond. https://bordonaro.eu/Open-House Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:10:05 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/Open-House Open House 2021-23 wood, variable (partially built project, included in the Social Art Award Catalogue 2021) <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68258da78b1591e6ec689e995aa931972771b6f064d44fb7dcd3989908f787ec/Lorenzo-Bordonaro_Open-House.jpg" data-mid="230390188" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68258da78b1591e6ec689e995aa931972771b6f064d44fb7dcd3989908f787ec/Lorenzo-Bordonaro_Open-House.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c564b7ef48100b0f2910268a172c0e883595c3407a39b8d0f7b2f63770b5cc4/IMG_6699.jpg" data-mid="230390179" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c564b7ef48100b0f2910268a172c0e883595c3407a39b8d0f7b2f63770b5cc4/IMG_6699.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ea41931aae84bbe3a5421049b758f9c9f187c838222120784d97c22b2e39b4c/Lorenzo-Bordonaro_Open-House_2.jpg" data-mid="230390187" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ea41931aae84bbe3a5421049b758f9c9f187c838222120784d97c22b2e39b4c/Lorenzo-Bordonaro_Open-House_2.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88a1801d4586b8b99c1c5592f1bc8a45ce14b5cb275f7b7d126b0dfd468bc68d/IMG_6932.jpg" data-mid="230390184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88a1801d4586b8b99c1c5592f1bc8a45ce14b5cb275f7b7d126b0dfd468bc68d/IMG_6932.jpg" /> OPEN HOUSE is a site-specific installation that dreams of dissolving the walls between architecture and nature, between the human and the wild. It gestures toward alternative ways of dwelling — open, porous, and attuned — where the bond between people and the living world grows closer, more vital, more alive. Set within a forest, OPEN HOUSE takes the form of a delicate wooden frame, resembling the outline of a small house. But unlike a house, it has no walls, no roof to seal it off from the world. Instead, it bends to the land and listens to the trees, weaving itself carefully among trunks and branches, never cutting, never wounding. The structure breathes with the forest, letting the landscape shape it rather than the other way around. Branches cross its open frame, leaves flutter inside its walls, birds and insects find their way through its spaces. Here, the boundary between inside and outside disappears — and with it, the illusion that humanity stands apart from nature. OPEN HOUSE invites visitors not to inhabit but to dis-habit — to experience a dwelling where the rhythms of life flow uninterrupted. Rain drips through, sunlight filters in, the scent of damp earth rises underfoot. Flowers will bloom ‘inside’ in spring; autumn leaves will fall unhindered to the ground. The cycles of the seasons move through the structure, uncontained and unbroken. At a time when reimagining our relationship with the Earth has become a question of survival, OPEN HOUSE offers a poetic space of reflection. It is a "shelter for alternative thinking," a clearing where new forms of sociability, coexistence, and belonging can take root. <img width="327" height="461" width_o="327" height_o="461" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d769a95d06c52f752eff3b0be2e6a091f9d228862482084452546188297a250/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-14.25.55.jpg" data-mid="124017371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/327/i/0d769a95d06c52f752eff3b0be2e6a091f9d228862482084452546188297a250/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-14.25.55.jpg" /> https://bordonaro.eu/The-house-and-the-tree Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:25:18 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/The-house-and-the-tree The House and the Tree wood 220 x 220 x 220cm 2021 Cascais, Portugal <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9b97e5583bdf8c2a168db3706c52b441661be5a0b4cf71bd95e611c37801084/IMG_4307.jpg" data-mid="230390422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9b97e5583bdf8c2a168db3706c52b441661be5a0b4cf71bd95e611c37801084/IMG_4307.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e519b1016c12ffde3da2f6ec976b2036d6e22872073364303f336e55ac3fd579/IMG_4017.jpg" data-mid="230390421" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e519b1016c12ffde3da2f6ec976b2036d6e22872073364303f336e55ac3fd579/IMG_4017.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b95bd7293c18d5254b24a405c8e1614dcd5dc30182c5371796198b577eb607a/IMG_4901.jpg" data-mid="230390423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b95bd7293c18d5254b24a405c8e1614dcd5dc30182c5371796198b577eb607a/IMG_4901.jpg" /> A delicate symphony of form and spirit, "The House and The Tree" emerges as an accessible installation, born from the quiet hum of creativity during an artist’s residency at @air_351 in the serene coastal town of Cascais, Portugal. It stands not as a solitary creation but as a profound dialogue with the land, an intimate conversation with the living presence of a medlar tree. This installation is more than mere structure; it is a living, breathing metaphor. It contemplates the fluidity of architecture, inviting us to see beyond rigid boundaries, to the possibility of permeable spaces where the line between human dwelling and the natural world blurs and dissolves. In its form, the installation is a gentle inquiry into how we, as dwellers of this earth, might coexist in harmony with the rhythms of nature — no longer separated by walls but embraced by the open, whispering breath of the world outside. Here, architecture is not just shelter, but a bridge — a bridge that connects us to the pulse of the soil, the sway of the trees, and the quiet murmurs of the earth beneath. It is an invitation to reconsider our place in the grand, living tapestry of the world, encouraging a reimagined relationship between human habitation and the landscapes that sustain us.📷@matuspisarcik_ https://bordonaro.eu/Bird-Houses Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:45:17 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/Bird-Houses Bird Houses wood variable size 2021-2022 <img width="3008" height="3008" width_o="3008" height_o="3008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2e0ba6b2f35ab66f15645502f6c90f2a8f2b8cad637d1998baecaaa245043e7/IMG_20210309_1049012.jpg" data-mid="103522336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2e0ba6b2f35ab66f15645502f6c90f2a8f2b8cad637d1998baecaaa245043e7/IMG_20210309_1049012.jpg" /> <img width="3008" height="3008" width_o="3008" height_o="3008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38ba4706eac5eb3b8ae6280dcd84a74e691127b6d10f8846c8aa14d880b587d1/IMG_20210309_104956.jpg" data-mid="103522303" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38ba4706eac5eb3b8ae6280dcd84a74e691127b6d10f8846c8aa14d880b587d1/IMG_20210309_104956.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b3acc9dd7e48bd3a3573a8a4820eaccd0d0346bf27fc2a44b5476b7c2f9b12c/Bordonaro-Proposal-03.jpg" data-mid="230393023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b3acc9dd7e48bd3a3573a8a4820eaccd0d0346bf27fc2a44b5476b7c2f9b12c/Bordonaro-Proposal-03.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e6b269e99c520dabfd01520606772c374f10c7a74390d1956f5a6ed9238b6dd/Bordonaro-Proposal-02.jpg" data-mid="230393022" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e6b269e99c520dabfd01520606772c374f10c7a74390d1956f5a6ed9238b6dd/Bordonaro-Proposal-02.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c41e30359f22a6cf8d8a51e85d50ad63332a509029e21bbe810c1916cd742c5/Bordonaro-Proposal-01.jpg" data-mid="230393021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c41e30359f22a6cf8d8a51e85d50ad63332a509029e21bbe810c1916cd742c5/Bordonaro-Proposal-01.jpg" /> Drawing upon a constructional and artistic language I have cultivated over the past years, my proposal unfolds as an act of quiet collaboration with nature: to build timber nesting and resting structures, tenderly anchored to the living branches of a tree. These pieces — at once architecture and sculpture — are conceived not merely as shelters but as invitations, offering sanctuary to non-human beings. Designed for colonization by birds and other small wanderers of the air, they are spaces for nesting, for resting, for simply pausing in the embrace of the tree’s canopy. Yet these are not the birdhouses of tradition. Each structure is a miniature architectural gesture, a crafted vessel where form and function meet imagination — ephemeral dwellings that honor both the artistry of making and the mystery of life they are meant to shelter.In their presence, the tree itself becomes a living host, a collaborator in a choreography of coexistence, where human hands and wild instincts weave new possibilities of shared space. https://bordonaro.eu/A-Home-Made-by-Drawing Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:14:23 +0000 bordonaro https://bordonaro.eu/A-Home-Made-by-Drawing A Home Made by Drawing B#S Gallery, Treviso. 2019 <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a93a952dc612a9a979c1d79185b8ace32c65d5020f68daf71db46e62d11b533/DSC_1241.JPG" data-mid="56770992" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a93a952dc612a9a979c1d79185b8ace32c65d5020f68daf71db46e62d11b533/DSC_1241.JPG" /> <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d90d828a9c1e30d28a2fc36f8db3a84c825516acf79853006662e825afaef369/DSC_1247.jpeg" data-mid="56770994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d90d828a9c1e30d28a2fc36f8db3a84c825516acf79853006662e825afaef369/DSC_1247.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c339fa50acdd5c31db681b783f8f796aee3834fe9ff272151470361d1c460d6e/DSC_1257.jpeg" data-mid="56770995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c339fa50acdd5c31db681b783f8f796aee3834fe9ff272151470361d1c460d6e/DSC_1257.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/244a72f23c10bb78ce5a45369d7e08546115151ab67f44ebb67bb7b60b11288c/DSC_1259.jpeg" data-mid="56770996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/244a72f23c10bb78ce5a45369d7e08546115151ab67f44ebb67bb7b60b11288c/DSC_1259.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfac885ce1ed02394108029df5e6cd611e304683d31f5943964aa7cfcea8a9bd/DSC_1261.jpeg" data-mid="56770997" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfac885ce1ed02394108029df5e6cd611e304683d31f5943964aa7cfcea8a9bd/DSC_1261.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d4b239fc9d39dbb535287c36b94fd9c79edd27b4c10294e4573b79bb994f940/DSC_1266.jpeg" data-mid="56770998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d4b239fc9d39dbb535287c36b94fd9c79edd27b4c10294e4573b79bb994f940/DSC_1266.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cbf13e9e5762ebcce47b1e0c8e95bb38649fc4cba2abaf0d3f2dc8dbafd78c4/DSC01906.jpeg" data-mid="56770999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cbf13e9e5762ebcce47b1e0c8e95bb38649fc4cba2abaf0d3f2dc8dbafd78c4/DSC01906.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e82f3a0e32d1124e2f82066117941c3adbcb5c04671bf83ec95ea5031e01ee14/DSC01948.jpeg" data-mid="56771000" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e82f3a0e32d1124e2f82066117941c3adbcb5c04671bf83ec95ea5031e01ee14/DSC01948.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f3f2fdac697da93a34491bb3629215f3653c88fc201b29ab7ba26c5cec100bf/DSC01955.jpeg" data-mid="56771002" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f3f2fdac697da93a34491bb3629215f3653c88fc201b29ab7ba26c5cec100bf/DSC01955.jpeg" /> I believe it is deeply significant to bring my project, A Home Made by Drawing, to Italy at this particular moment — a time when political forces across the spectrum increasingly reject migration and refugees, and the rhetoric of nationalism gains alarming ground across Europe. At its heart, A Home Made by Drawing is an art project about mobility, connection, travel, and the fragile poetry of temporary dwelling. It unfolds as a visual metaphor for alternative ways of imagining home — ways that are porous, nomadic, and negotiable. Through the exploration of non-static and fluid modes of inhabiting space, it invites us to reconsider identity and belonging, not as fixed coordinates, but as flowing, diasporic experiences. In tracing these shifting lines of movement and memory, the project evokes an alternative relationship between human beings and their environments — one built on adaptation, exchange, and the acceptance of impermanence. Despite the resurgence of nationalist rhetoric, despite the dark echoes of walls and borders proclaimed by figures like Trump, I remain steadfast in my belief that the future belongs to us, the global citizens —to those whose loves, lives, jobs, memories, fortunes, misfortunes, desires, and pains weave across the world like an intricate, living drawing of red lines. A drawing that stretches and spreads across the planet, dissolving boundaries and exposing the smallness of ideologies that seek to divide. A future where national borders and exclusionary myths will seem like the nightmares of a barbaric and distant past. Thanks to IoDeposito Npo, and particularly to its coordinator and curator Chiara Isadora Artico, and to all the IoDeposito team Magda Dokowska, Terxan Ismayilzade and Alice Rubbini Fotos by FotoPigi Foto The project in Treviso is hosted by and organised in partnership with IoDeposito and supported by the i-Portunus pilot project funded by the #creativeeurope Programme of the European Union.