A site-specific project by RUFA Fine Arts students
The Caterpillar is the new artistic intervention created by second-year students of the RUFA Fine Arts Master’s Programme, who have transformed the rooms of Hotel Parrasio — a building currently undergoing rebranding — into an immersive journey dedicated to the theme of metamorphosis.
The hotel spaces become passageways, suspended between what once was and what is yet to come, reinterpreted through installations, participatory interventions and performances that explore the concept of transformation.
The artists behind the project
Six young RUFA artists have developed a visual and sensorial narrative reflecting on change:
– Pedro Henrique Simplicio
– JANO (Lydia Monsen and Hideyoshi Sato)
– Supriya Ravishankar
– Kira Bowling
– Michelle Ronaly Kuruwitaarachchi
Each artist has worked on the idea of transformation as an open process: not a fixed symbol, but a continuous movement in which space loses its original structure to become a field of possibilities. Visitors are invited to observe how a place in transition can generate new forms of storytelling.
An urban laboratory of metamorphosis
The project was developed within the RUFA Master’s Programme in Fine Arts, a course that encourages research, experimentation and dialogue with real urban spaces.
Working within a building in transition means engaging with its memory and its capacity to transform, fostering reflection on the relationship between art, architecture and community.
The project is curated by Marta Jovanović, Coordinator of the Visual Arts Department, and Davide Dormino, artist and RUFA Sculpture lecturer.
PROGRAMME
Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November
Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 December
Activities scheduled from 7:00 PM onwards.
Ex Hotel Parrasio, Salita del Bosco Parrasio 5, Rome.
ACCESS PROCEDURES
Access is granted exclusively through nominal accreditation.
Accreditation with accompanying guest: send an email to rsvp@tramp.it
Subject: “Demolition @ Ex Parrasio”
Email body: First and Last Name
(Each accreditation grants two entries via QR code).
Evento produced by TRAMP | CAMPO MAGNETICO | DARKNOON | BUCOLICO per BOSCO PARRASIO | HOTEL PARTICOLARE © tramp 2025.
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