Alessia Gatti
Alessia Gatti employs a meticulous, almost alchemical approach, selecting, reassembling, and stitching together signs and fragments as if in a process of symbolic healing. Her installations and collages transform discarded or forgotten elements into vibrant textures that tell new stories. In Spazio Sacro Verbum, three sections of carpet covered with crosswords reconstruct the imagined surface of her childhood bedroom (5 x 4 m), an intimate space that becomes shared memory. In Gomitolo (balls of crossword yarn), the thread is more than just direction; it’s a compass, a guide, but also a chaotic entanglement that conceals and confounds, compelling one to get lost in order to be found.
Jessica Ferro
Jessica Ferro (born 1992, Dolo) is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated in Painting – Visual Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. Her research is inspired by the natural world and develops through an intense and expressive mark that investigates the complexity of living matter and the tensions that permeate reality. In her works, painting, graphics, and installation dialogue in a synthesis where imprint, layering, and material manipulation become tools of knowledge.
Elisa Capucci
Elisa Capucci (born 1998) is an Italian artist currently living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her practice sits at the intersection of installation, theory, and material experimentation, rooted in the paradigms of Speculative Realism, Neo-materialism, and Posthumanism. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and subsequently completed an exchange period during her Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL) in London. Her professional experience includes working as a studio assistant for Michael Dean (London) and Uffe Isolotto (Copenhagen), as well as founding HIDDEN GARAGE, an independent space dedicated to emerging artists and autonomous curatorial practices in Bologna. Elisa’s work explores sculpture not just as a formal or aesthetic pursuit, but as an epistemic and pedagogical methodology.
Alessandro Franco
Alessandro Franco (Crotone, 1996) is a sound artist. He graduated in Sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia (2023) and is a self-taught musician. He works and studies in Naples, where he is pursuing his master’s degree. He is an assistant to artist Roberto Pugliese, deepening his research into the relationship between visual art and sound experimentation. His works explore the connections between sound, movement, and material transformations, constructing devices where organic and mechanical elements coexist in unstable equilibriums. His language is founded on the energy of sound and its ability to set matter in motion, generating bodies in flux, kinetic tensions, and constant metamorphoses.
Federica Zianni
The practice of art, like the formation of religions and myths, is common to all human beings and present in every culture since the dawn of humanity. Through her research, Federica Zianni seeks to reflect on how art, understood as a practice, is the point of encounter, the common ground where fears provoked by current issues such as identity, cultural heritage, eco-anxiety, and migration can be investigated directly and demonstratively, through sculptural installations and performances. The artist primarily works with artificial and often repurposed materials, such as inner tubes and tourniquets, often juxtaposing them with classic materials like brass and bronze, using the lost-wax casting technique, to which she is deeply attached. In her production, she addresses the theme of self-introspection, analyzing the paradoxes and contradictions of human beings, starting from herself.
