SI/LENZIO

Sylvio Giardina Performance Couture FW23/24

Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano

Original concept by Sylvio Giardina.
The sound installation was developed for the performance at the Baths of Diocletian, using the architecture and acoustics of the historical spaces as part of the experience.

A recorded voice moves through the rooms, recalling the themes of myth, ritual, memory, and the feminine that are central to the performance. The sound works in dialogue with the fashion presentation, extending its narrative into the surrounding space.

“A zealous experimenter, Sylvio Giardina has often intertwined the story of his contemporary couture with the inspiration of visual arts, crossing the languages of video, installation and performative practices. After the presentation held last January in the halls on the main floor of Palazzo Farnese in Rome, on the occasion of /gal-lerìa/, the presentation of the SS23 collection, the designer has once again chosen the city where he lives and works for a new project. On July 13th, the National Roman Museum, in the Diocletian Baths Complex, presents SI/LENZIO, a site specific intervention conceived by Sylvio Giardina and curated by Alessio de’Navasques, in which the echo of the myth, the dimension of the ritual, of the memory, of an eternal and ineffable feminine in transformation, are the narrative traces for an epiphany that blends fashion and performance.”

Stéphane Verger Direttore del Museo Nazionale Romano

Institution Museo Nazionale Romano

Curator Alessio de Navasques

Performer Mina Serrano

Producer Raffaele Granato

Sound Installation Tania Alineri & Filippo Temperini

Press Office Maria Cristina Bastante

Photography Tania Alineri

Photography Cristina Crippa

Videomaker Piero Perilli

Camera Operator Nicolas Vanegas Sanchez

Make-up Camilla Iacobitti

Thanks to Team Sylvio Giardina, Museo Nazionale Romano, Ministero della Cultura