Too hot for heaven too cold for hell is a solo exhibition project by artist Arianna Ladogana, conceived specifically for the spaces of Flusso Project. The exhibition takes the form of an immersive installation bringing together light, sound, and three interconnected ceramic sculptures.

The first takes the form of a holy-water font, inspired by those found in churches throughout Southern Italy. A sleeping hand rests inside the basin, from which a continuous thread of water flows. The ceramic structure remains “alive” thanks to a submersible pump, invisible yet essential to the functioning of the work.

The holy-water font inhabits a threshold between sacred and profane, intimacy and ritual, body and landscape. The hand becomes a porous interface through which matter, technology, and human presence meet. Traditionally a place of purification and passage, the font becomes here a source without a certain origin: a point at which the idea of belonging gives way to that of relation.

Behind it…