28/09/2026
Marsèll presents Soft Machine by Claire Duport
A series of pointed—and seemingly pointless—silhouettes floating above the visitors. This is the starting point of Claire Duport’s installation suspended from the ceiling of Marsèll’s flagship store. Made from translucent fabric, the forms reveal their own skeleton, conveying a sense of lightness and fragility. Rather than focusing on finished objects, Duport creates a visual rhythm that evokes the industrial process behind any object. The repeated forms, at once seductive and oppressive, no longer appear as products, because they themselves have no discernible use. Rather than resolving contradictions, Duport’s installation for Marsèll holds them in suspension, inviting viewers to discover how long tension can be comfortably held.
The process itself has been emptied of its task. It does not produce a recognisable object; it merely survives as a memory of production. What remains is the skeleton, the gesture, the choreography of making.
—Joel Valabrega
Soft Machine is an installation by Claire Duport, conceived for the latest chapter of Spazio, Marsèll’s ongoing program featuring a series of site-specific interventions by artists, designers, and curators created to transform the flagship store on Via della Spiga, Milan, into a platform for cultural exchange and shared expression.
24 September – 30 October 2026
Marsèll Milano Spiga
Via della Spiga 42, Milan
