Banquet is pleased to present Floating Island, a solo exhibition by Bruno Muzzolini at the gallery, on view from October 28 till December 5, 2025.

Bruno Muzzolini is a visual artist whose work is marked by an essential, incisive language. Working primarily with video and photography, he explores our sensory experience through the construction of poetic and metaphorical spaces.

For Floating Island, Muzzolini has created an environmental installation built from plastic bottles and containers collected over the course of a year. From these discarded fragments, he shaped a floating island, set adrift on a small lake among the hills of Emilia, in a valley sculpted by the slow erosion of its clay terrain. The island was planted without a predetermined design—somewhere between a vegetable plot and a garden—with cuttings taken from local species.

Powered by a solar panel and a small hydraulic pump for irrigation, the work became self-sustaining, entering into a dynamic, reciprocal dialogue with the surrounding lake. Over time, it turned into a living habitat, a place of contact and exchange between different forms of life. Frogs and mice, water snakes and coots found refuge there; the gaps in its structure became home to a colony of Louisiana crayfish; its vegetables provided nourishment, and its flowers drew bees and hornets.

As organic and inorganic matter intertwined, a vital tension emerged—giving rise to a new form, and a new way of thinking. From early spring through autumn, Muzzolini followed the island’s transformations, filming and photographing its slow evolution.

Floating Island conveys the life of this ecosystem through a plastic and empathetic gaze, attentive to the relationships between living organisms and their environment.