Coordinate di un’invenzione — Martina Civardi

The work interprets the concept of “The Future is an Invisible Playground” by transforming the static surface of a spreadsheet into an ecosystem of possibilities.

Through the use of digital and analog collage techniques, the poster stages the tension between the rigidity of pre-existing structures — the grid, the numbers, the past — and the unpredictability of human play. The child, rendered on a monumental scale, does not observe passively but intervenes: their pencil traces the boundaries of a world in which the “black dots” cease to be obstacles and instead become anchors for a new form of collective play. Human figures from different eras inhabit this space, climbing tension lines, sliding along uncertain trajectories, and occupying the gaps between the visible and the imaginary. The image does not seek to offer a definitive answer, but rather a manifesto for inhabiting uncertainty. It is an invitation to see the future not as an invisible threat, but as a playground whose rules are still waiting to be invented.

Martina Civardi is a photographer and analog collage artist living and working in Italy, between Milan and Florence. Her practice primarily develops from vintage photographs — often taken by her grandfather — portraying members of her family. She also works with materials such as vintage newspaper, cardboard, magazines, books, Polaroids, and other elements that evoke the past. The figures cut from these images are recontextualized within imaginary environments, suspended between dreamlike atmospheres and melancholy.