Infinito Cabinet by Maria Cristina Crespo

A contemporary cabinet of curiosities unfolds in Infinito Cabinet, where Maria Cristina Crespo constructs an immersive, multi-layered installation shaped by literature, myth, and cultural memory. Curated by Giusy Caroppo, the exhibition by Eclettica Cultura dell’Arte reimagines the Wunderkammer as an expansive, associative system in which objects, images, and references accumulate across time and geography.

Drawing from sources that range from Ovid and Dante to The Thousand and One Nights, Crespo assembles an iconographic theatre populated by anthropomorphic forms, textile figures, and scenographic elements. Histories and mythologies intersect, dissolving distinctions between East and West, sacred and popular traditions, and past and present. Through this dense visual language, the work proposes knowledge as something constructed through juxtaposition, imagination, and continual reinterpretation.