party hats based on Goya’s engravings
2025

In the eighteenth century, people accused of heresy, as depicted in the paintings and engravings of Goya, were condemned to the stake. Their hats — the capirotes — two centuries later underwent a radical shift in meaning. After curious reappropriations and reversals, the pointed hats, once tools of stigma and marginalization, were transformed into party hats.

Starting from the capirote engraved by Goya in No hubo remedio (There Was No Remedy), I redesigned them as birthday hats.
In one hall of Palaz zo Te, for the exhibition It Could Not Have Been Otherwise, created together with Jacopo Zambello, these hats were distributed to visitors and placed throughout the space, in order to alter the perception of the works, the environment, and the event itself.