Monica Ragno/ Everyday objects

Monica Ragno is an Italian architect and artist practicing professionally in Genoa. Parallelly, their research focuses on what discarded materials can still offer, attentively listening to the material elements. Whether dealing with forgotten fragments, industrial waste, or construction components, the artist redeems these forms to explore their latent potential. Their work distances itself from the superficial condemnation of waste, recognizing within common elements a possibility of solemn beauty and structure. Suspensions, structural bonds, and chromatic interlocks thus create salvation, embraces, and profound states of mind. This approach grants wounded or fragmented matter a new possibility of survival and novel geometric and emotional equilibria. Within this production, every artwork shapes itself as an authentic fragment of the artist's soul.

1, 2, 3 (Triptych)

Reclaimed post-consumer industrial white plastic canisters, structural grey concrete casting, progressive numerical marking (1, 2, 3) applied via stencil.

30x15x10cm each, 2026

This sculptural triptych functions as an analytical inquiry into the consumption habits of domestic life, directly responding to the core philosophy of "Everyday Objects." Monica Ragno confronts ordinary plastic detergent canisters to execute a radical process of material reclamation and redemption. By cutting open their familiar commercial shell, the artist forces the smooth industrial polymer to coexist with a heavy, raw grey concrete core poured inside. Reading from left to right, the series acts as a physical timeline of transformation and structural exposure. In module 1, the plastic dominates, hiding the core. In module 2, the excavation splits the canister in half. In module 3, the concrete fully reclaims the space, pushing the white plastic and the blue caps to the margins. The progressive numbers (1, 2, 3) applied via stencil formalize this analytical cataloging of consumer waste. This work categorically rejects the rhetoric and aesthetics of recycling, turning a familiar household item into a solemn architectural section that elevates the container to an unexpected monumental dignity.