Metropolitan Voids Agency

Metropolitan Voids Agency is the first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini. The book recounts the work carried out by Moscardini spanning seventeen years, between 2008 and 2024, inviting a reading of her practice in its entirety as an investigation into “urban voids”, that Moscardini recognised and designated as such, or those that she herself invented in the urban space, or spaces sparsely anthropized, in between the meshes of the law.

The artwork of Margherita Moscardini, born in Italy in 1981, favour long-term projects developed through large-scale interventions, sculptures, video, and writings. Divided into six sections, Metropolitan Voids Agency carries essays by Derk Stegeman, Francesca Verga, Lawrence Liang, Margherita Moscardini, Nora Sternfeld, Pelin Tan, Pippo Ciorra, and Zasha Colah. 

Each section of the book tells of a long-term project through a descriptive text and research images, a photo essay relating to the project, and an in-depth essay by an invited writer. The seven sections correspond to the main long-term projects that Moscardini has developed, investigating geographical contexts considered paradigmatic of the present and crossing different areas, from architecture to urban studies, from law to philosophy.

Metropolitan Voids Agency, published by Archive Books Berlin and commissioned by Ar/Ge Kunst Bozen-Bolzano, is edited by Zasha Colah and Francesca Verga. Editorial coordination by Greta Martina and Verena Rastner.