Ottone Radavi / À l’abri
— project 03 —

Interactive sculptural installation

À l’abri

FDM 3D printing · PLA · light hand-finishing · matte varnish

Black raspberry sculpture opening to reveal a blue larval self-portrait

Rebirth usually promises a new, higher form. Mine is more modest.

I return to my first refuge — the wild raspberry thickets. Inside, the viewer finds me, not as a human, but as a larva, a comical, vulnerable, primordial self-portrait, hidden away where I feel truly safe, truly at home.

The artist holding the closed raspberry sculpture
The opened raspberry revealing the blue larva
The open sculptural raspberry on aluminium
Close view of the blue larval self-portrait
Three blue larval self-portraits on aluminium
A larva sheltered between two black raspberries
The installation arranged on an aluminium surface
Detail of the black raspberry leaves and skin
Blue larva beside a black raspberry
The larva curled inside the open raspberry
Larval self-portrait emerging among raspberry leaves
Blue larva curled around black raspberry leaves
Reclining larval self-portrait on black raspberry leaves
Larval self-portrait with black berries and leaves
Blue larva resting on a black raspberry branch
Closed black raspberry forms on aluminium
Close detail of a small black raspberry