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03 — Giulia Ferro

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“I am not afraid of the dark”

Giulia Ferro · Borgo Po · 2025

Giulia Ferro sent us a sentence written on a train ticket. The installation keeps her line exactly, including the letters she would have fixed.

Blockout — the jump painted out
Electrode end and standoff
The core of the discharge
  1. (a.)

    10 mm glass follows handwriting more closely; the smallest radius on the “p” is under a centimetre.

  2. (b.)

    The installation runs on a timer: it lights at dusk and switches off at dawn, like the title asks.

  3. (c.)

    Shown on raw concrete, with no backing panel, so the tube seems to float.