Model for the Impossible Black Tulip

On the right side of the entrance-hall we reach a square room with skylight. In the center one can see a cubic shape in rotation hung by one of its vertices.
A mnemonic exercise: consider the cubic object a space of memory; the faces are to be called mappa mundi and its continents; the irregularity of their circular shapes: black tulip; the infinite line without beginning nor end and its inability to reverse: impossibility.
We are facing the Model for the impossible black tulip, a prototype that features a converging, connected and continuous topological space solved according to the principles of the Möbius strip. This revolving sculpture made up of an infinite spiral line defines its form through the presence of six circular sides in an isometric perspective.
Out of curiosity, and because of its rarity, importance and exoticism, the mappa mundi developed by Ricci in the Chinese language was called the black tulip of cartography.
Through architectural expression and sculpture, Memory Palace celebrates Ricci, the intercultural encounter, sharing of knowledge, friendship, but it also points to the discussion on the nature of memory at a philosophical level. The subjective experience of time, duration and consciousness, the psychic dimension of memory, the relations between thought and language, the function of signs and words in human experience.