This project was developed during an artist residency at MART – the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto.

The title, Ciao Mario, refers to the museum's architect, Mario Botta, but also to an imaginary greeting addressed each day to the building, its artworks, and the people who inhabit it. A silent dialogue between architecture and human presence.

Through photography, collage, and installation-based interventions, the project explores what usually remains unnoticed: the relationship between the museum and those who move through it every day. Guards, visitors, artworks, and spaces become part of a single network of constantly evolving connections.

The transparent structures appearing within the images suggest the presence of autonomous and fragile spaces—small worlds that seem to emerge from the existing architecture without fully belonging to it. Mental places before physical ones, suspended between observation and imagination.

This research later evolved into Invisible Apartments, a project that further investigates invisible spaces and the parallel realities hidden within the environments we inhabit.