MAR - Station Area Public Atworks
MAR – Mobile Art Residency is the section of WALC! that sees the creation of two public art installations in the station area of Padua, in a dialogue between geography and contemporary art.
On the sidelines of the conference “Urban Mobility Cultures: Creative and Narrative Approaches to Moving in the City” organized by MoHu together with the WALC project on January 15-16, 2026, participants were able to preview the works under the guidance of Giada Peterle, PI of the Paduan unit of the project.
On January 24 at 11:30 a.m., the context-specific works by Caterina Morigi and Daniele Costa will be presented in the Peppino Impastato Room of Banca Etica. Then they will remain as permanent marks on the city’s skin.
The two installations explore mobility, gestures, trajectories, and relationships between bodies and matter in the complexity of the neighborhood. The works are the result of a long process of exploration, which saw the artists articulate the theme of urban walking as a practice for questioning the context and its transformations. The works will also dot an ongoing path of works in the public space of the station area, created by mid-career contemporary artists, already launched in 2022 by the Creativity area of the Progetto Giovani Office of the Municipality of Padua.
Phantàsia | Caterina Morigi
Drawing from the heritage preserved in the archive of the Museum of Geography at the University of Padua, Caterina Morigi creates a diffuse installation, composed of seven elements in terrazzo, positioned on the ground at various points in the station area. The work investigates the iconography of “creatures of the unknown”, legendary animals and fantastic figures that populated ancient maps of unexplored territories. Morigi approaches the contemporary urban space, generating a reflection on the theme of otherness and community coexistence, through a sensorial, emotional, and imaginative path.
Ghosting | Daniele Costa
The video installation explores, through the use of thermography, the invisible world hidden beneath the surface. Daniele Costa investigates the thermicity of bodies that move through portions of territory, ephemeral traces that mix heat, movement, and color gradients. The dramaturgy by Laura Pante, who is portrayed while doing a performative walk, emphasises the ritual movements of commuters across the station area. The work generates a continously changing landscape of movements, and tells about phantasmatic presences in motion, where the void of absence and the fullness of presence alternate.
