Lamina is a black and white marble sculpture by Fausto Ferrara, conceived in 2023 as a study for a work, in which a thin surface is transformed into space through folding, inclination and light.

The Work originates from an essential gesture: the continuity of the slab is interrupted and matter changes direction. Marble is not treated as monumental mass but brought toward the opposite condition: surface, boundary and threshold.

The reduction of thickness intensifies the tension between the actual weight of stone and its apparent lightness. Each fold transforms the relationship between solid and void, while light moves across the different inclinations, making balance, fragility and the internal tension of form perceptible.

Lamina is architecture compressed to an intimate scale. It does not represent an object or construct a recognizable figure: within a few centimetres it concentrates fundamental questions within Ferrara’s architecture — boundary, direction, balance, matter and space.

The Work has no single viewpoint. It requires the body to move around it as fold, shadow and profile continually change their relationship. Form appears suspended at the instant in which it might still fall, rise or transform.

Lamina belongs to Ferrara’s research into Necessary Form: matter is reduced until every deviation, cut and inclination assumes a precise spatial function.