Indesiderate. The installation at Palazzo del Bo

15.12.2025

On the afternoon of Tuesday, December 16, at 5.30 p.m., in the Cortile Nuovo of Palazzo del Bo in Padua, the installation Indesiderate will be inaugurated. The work was created by artist Giacomo Segantin together with students from the Universities of Padua, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Verona who took part in the Sustainable Art Prize.

Indesiderate is a site-specific artwork, part of a collaborative process whose first step was an urban foraging practice of pokeweed berries near Padua’s train station.

Following the harvest, the color was extracted and used to produce filters that alter the light within the courtyard. Through this intervention, a marginal area is brought to the center—both literally and metaphorically—with the aim of reflecting on the identity of places and the different ways of inhabiting them.

The artwork will be presented by the artist after institutional greetings by Francesca da Porto, Vice-Rector for Sustainability, and Mauro Varotto, University representative for the Sustainable Art Prize project.