The main hall of the historical site of Carvico has been turned into the shrine hosting Net Positive, a site-specific installation made by Federica Patera & Andrea Sbra Perego.

It is an environmental art piece taking art inside the workplace, transforming a reception area into a sensorial, immersive experience. Net Positive is meant to be a sign of openness: an invitation to plunge into an imaginary place mixing production, creativity and responsibility.

The installation draws inspiration from fyke nets, ancient fishing nets made of cylindrical mesh bags, re-interpreted by the authors to turn them into a poetic landscape. The pillars constituting the artwork emerge like marine creatures: vibrant weaves evoking corals and seafloors. Viewers’ eyes are led towards the highest part of the work where shapes get increasingly lighter turning into suspended clouds, a fluid transition from water to air, weight and lightness, origin and transformation.

The event core is the material itself: Net Positive is handmade with Vita, a fabric made of 100% regenerated nylon from pre- and post-consumer waste. Over 2.500 fabric stripes of different shades, totaling up to 10 Kilometers, have been manually cut, extended and intertwined to create a 150 m² net, a flexible, wraparound, organic architecture. The work comprises several different interconnected elements which can adapt to the hosting space and dialogue with it.

The choice of positioning the work at the entrance of the company office building is intended to reinforce its meaning: Net Positive becomes a place where connections are generated, new journeys are born and new paths cross. As the title suggests, the installation becomes a metaphor of a positive relationship, a network of rapports, energies and opportunities which come alive inside space and among people.

Thanks to Net Positive, Carvico wants to reconfirm its commitment to consider art as part of people’s daily life and work: a tool generating a vision, wellbeing and awareness.

A concrete example of how art can inhabit production sites and, thanks to its transformational power, turn them into space of experience, relationship and future.