After its Milan debut during Interni’s Cre-Action exhibition-event at Fuorisalone 2025, TAM TAM. Temple, Action, Movement arrives in Rome, in the courtyard of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. Designed by the studio Alvisi Kirimoto and created with the support of COREPLA, the installation will be open to visitors until December 8, 2025, as part of Interni’s special issue dedicated to the Capital: Rome, eternal change.
With a base measuring six meters per side and a height of five, TAM TAM asserts itself as an architectural organism in transformation. Six columns of different diameters reinterpret the classical principles of firmitas, utilitas, and venustas in a dynamic key: no longer static elements, but movable bodies that the public is invited to shift and reorganize. Every gesture becomes part of the project—a collective ritual that speaks of relationships, balance, and fragility.
“We started from the idea of a temple, but we wanted it to be alive,” says Junko Kirimoto, the studio’s co-founder. “An architecture that changes with those who pass through it, becoming dialogue, encounter, a sensitive experience.”
The absolute white of the structure gives way to possibility: a place yet to be written, where emptiness, movement, and light compose ever-changing narratives. It is an invitation to take part, to shift, to rethink the way we inhabit space.
Made entirely of recycled plastic thanks to the collaboration with COREPLA—the National Consortium for the Collection, Recycling, and Recovery of Plastic Packaging—the work is also a manifesto for material circularity. “TAM TAM is a symbolic yet concrete gesture that reflects on our relationship with the environment and on the role of art as a driver of collective awareness,” says Giovanni Cassuti, president of COREPLA.
After Rome, the installation will continue its journey, ready to reinvent itself each time in a new context. A traveling project that stages Alvisi Kirimoto’s vision: an open, moving architecture, capable of breathing with those who experience it.
Photo courtesy © Luca Santini
