In the heart of the Cilento region, where medieval architecture encounters the slow metamorphosis of the landscape, Pitch Point by Tild Greene emerges as a critical friction between what endures and what passes. The intervention takes place within the sixth edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, a widespread contemporary art project promoted by Fondazione Elpis, in collaboration with Galleria Continua and Threes, which every summer since 2020 has brought together twenty artists and twenty villages across Italy (one in each region).
Tild Greene, “Pitch Point”, Lustra, Campania. Ph Danilo Donzelli. Artwork produced with the support of Fondazione Elpis as part of “Una Boccata d’Arte” 2025
This is not a conventional public art project, but a genuine exercise in listening to the territory. Artists are invited to spend time in immersive residencies, free from thematic constraints, to conceive and create site-specific works capable of engaging in dialogue with the identity, geography and memory of the host communities. Far removed from institutional circuits and the self-referential language of certain strands of contemporary art, Una Boccata d’Arte has, over the years, established itself as a poetic and political constellation of quiet presences, dispersed across marginal, remote and often overlooked landscapes. It is a project that works through proximity and subtraction: it does not occupy places, it traverses them. It does not interpret them, it questions them. Rocca Cilento, a village nestled in the Campanian hills, hosts the intervention of British artist Tild Greene (b. 1994), selected to represent the region with a project that rejects any decorative impulse in order to interrogate, through sculpture, the very grammar of transition. Trained between London and Amsterdam, Greene has long grounded her practice in a sustained reflection on the relationship between body, object and potential. Her works – always on the verge of action, never fully static – refuse the idea of art as a completed form, instead favouring the liminal space of beginnings, of tension, of possibility.
Tild Greene, “Pitch Point”, Lustra, Campania. Ph Danilo Donzelli. Artwork produced with the support of Fondazione Elpis as part of “Una Boccata d’Arte” 2025
With Pitch Point, curated by Giulia Pollicita and produced with the support of Galleria Fonti, Greene operates in the voids – working with what connects, what separates, what invites. Her sculptures, produced with the technical contribution of Fonderia Nolana, are dispersed across the margins of Rocca Cilento and appear as unstable architectural fragments: arches without foundations, thresholds that lead nowhere, gateways with no fixed orientation. One in particular – a gate installed in an abandoned football field – functions as a short circuit between activation and suspension, between the gesture and its interruption. It is a silent threshold, not dividing but evoking, not closing but opening possibilities. This is not sculpture as object, but as a reflection on time and identity: Pitch Point speaks of the tension between function and its erosion, between architecture as collective device and the individual experience that moves through it. The surfaces – casts, curves, fissures – recall the idea of physical memory, of imprints that do not explain but retain.
Tild Greene, “Pitch Point”, Lustra, Campania. Ph Danilo Donzelli. Artwork produced with the support of Fondazione Elpis as part of “Una Boccata d’Arte” 2025
Greene challenges any univocal reading of place: her intervention disrupts the historical narrative of the village, not to negate it, but to render it porous, questionable. Like a foot striking a ball and altering its trajectory, each sculpture suggests that meaning lies in the moment of passage itself. It is in the brief gap between intention and gesture that the work emerges – in the “oscillating” position, as Greene herself describes it – always about to touch something, but never fully doing so. At a time when art often risks becoming territorial embellishment, Pitch Point instead claims the space for critical thought – for a poetic act that does not illustrate but destabilises. Greene’s works do not impose themselves; they remain on the margins, and from there they shift our gaze. In this sense, the project becomes an inquiry into the threshold between what is useful and what is simply necessary. Una Boccata d’Arte continues to demonstrate that art can still generate spaces of attention, slowness, and care. And in this case, it does so through an installation that does not narrate Rocca Cilento but quietly inhabits it, allowing voids, thresholds, and fractures to speak.
Info:
Tild Greene. Pitch Point
28/06 – 28/09/2025
As part of Una Boccata d’Arte VI Edition
curated by Giulia Pollicita
Via Garibaldi 2, Rocca Cilento, fraz. di Lustra (SA)
www.unaboccatadarte.it
Art Curator and Art Advisor, graduated in Visual Arts and Cultural Mediation, with Master in Curatorial Practices, born in 1995, lives in Naples. He collaborates with Galleries and Independent Spaces, his research is mainly focused on Emerging Painting, with a careful and inclined gaze also on other forms of aesthetic language.
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