Searching for myself through remote skins
Renata Fabbri is glad to present Searching for myself through remote skins, a project curated by Bianca Baroni which gathers works by nine international artists such as Rebecca Ackroyd, Gabriele Beveridge, Bea Bonafini, Irene Fenara, Beatrice Gibson, Lydia Gifford, Goldschmied & Chiari e Catherine Parsonage.
Inspired by Luce Irigaray’s text Perhaps cultivating touch can still save us, the title of the show indicates the physical experience of the other as a fundamental premise in the articulation of the self. In some of the most salient passages of Irigaray’s essay, the author suggests that touch does not simply underlie an intimate encounter with another subject, but it actually plays a crucial role in the definition of one’s own identity. The process of identification of one’s own nature through tactile experience is here imagined as an actual path, a journey through the landscape of the body and its social habitat, two territories appearing as both exotic and familiar. Departing from some of the key propositions that constitute Irigaray’s theoretical contribution, the present exhibition proposes a dialogue among a series of artistic practices incarnating different languages and researches and yet manifesting a shared sensitivity in relation to the idea of intimacy. The works featured in the exhibition subtend different approaches and perspectives in relation to such concept. They highlight reciprocities and contradictions that characterize this notion within the personal and creative sphere of each artist, as well as within the broader socio-cultural arena in which they operate. Besides manifesting itself through those gestures foregrounding each artistic process, the idea of touch is explored through materials and objects specifically conceived in relation to the body and to those daily rituals that implicate it. However the exhibition also travels along radically different trajectories, questioning the supposed correlation between touch and the articulation of an intimate relation. In some of the exhibited works, the tactile experience is completely abstracted from the reality of the body in order to become pure suggestion. In certain cases the portrayal of the body retraces a simulation of physicality or – better yet – the tactile feeling of a bodily surface. In other cases such representation is focused on a particular aspect of the body that, being alienated from the totality of its apparatus, becomes the fulcrum of a self-standing, abstract composition.
Developing on diverse conceptual and visual levels, the project deconstructs and re-imagines the idea of intimacy through a fluid negotiation between the reality of the body and its erotization, between artistic and popular imaginaries, between the public and the private dimension, between science-fiction and historical narratives, between the definition of the self and its dissolution through the digital space.
Renata Fabbri is glad to present Searching for myself through remote skins, a project curated by Bianca Baroni which gathers works by nine international artists such as Rebecca Ackroyd, Gabriele Beveridge, Bea Bonafini, Irene Fenara, Beatrice Gibson, Lydia Gifford, Goldschmied & Chiari e Catherine Parsonage.
Inspired by Luce Irigaray’s text Perhaps cultivating touch can still save us, the title of the show indicates the physical experience of the other as a fundamental premise in the articulation of the self. In some of the most salient passages of Irigaray’s essay, the author suggests that touch does not simply underlie an intimate encounter with another subject, but it actually plays a crucial role in the definition of one’s own identity. The process of identification of one’s own nature through tactile experience is here imagined as an actual path, a journey through the landscape of the body and its social habitat, two territories appearing as both exotic and familiar. Departing from some of the key propositions that constitute Irigaray’s theoretical contribution, the present exhibition proposes a dialogue among a series of artistic practices incarnating different languages and researches and yet manifesting a shared sensitivity in relation to the idea of intimacy. The works featured in the exhibition subtend different approaches and perspectives in relation to such concept. They highlight reciprocities and contradictions that characterize this notion within the personal and creative sphere of each artist, as well as within the broader socio-cultural arena in which they operate. Besides manifesting itself through those gestures foregrounding each artistic process, the idea of touch is explored through materials and objects specifically conceived in relation to the body and to those daily rituals that implicate it. However the exhibition also travels along radically different trajectories, questioning the supposed correlation between touch and the articulation of an intimate relation. In some of the exhibited works, the tactile experience is completely abstracted from the reality of the body in order to become pure suggestion. In certain cases the portrayal of the body retraces a simulation of physicality or – better yet – the tactile feeling of a bodily surface. In other cases such representation is focused on a particular aspect of the body that, being alienated from the totality of its apparatus, becomes the fulcrum of a self-standing, abstract composition.
Developing on diverse conceptual and visual levels, the project deconstructs and re-imagines the idea of intimacy through a fluid negotiation between the reality of the body and its erotization, between artistic and popular imaginaries, between the public and the private dimension, between science-fiction and historical narratives, between the definition of the self and its dissolution through the digital space.
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- Lydia Gifford, Searching for myself through remote skins, 2018Cardboard, cotton, towel, wood, nails, glue, white clay, oil paint, acrylic, 78,5x87x50 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Slick Submissions, 2018Pastel on wool and nylon inlayed carpets, 426x366 cm (detail)
- Bea Bonafini, Slick Submissions, 2018Pastel on wool and nylon inlayed carpets, 426x366 cm (detail)
- Bea Bonafini, Slick Submissions, 2018Pastel on wool and nylon inlayed carpets, 426x366 cm
- Beatrice Gibson, Agatha, 2012Colour, sound, 16 mm transferred to HD Video, 14 minutes
- Catherine Parsonage, Untitled (for V.W), 2018Acrylic on canvas, 28x35 cm
- Catherine Parsonage, Untitled (Ear painting), 2018Acrylic on canvas, 110x200 cm
- Gabriele Beveridge, Perfect Clearance Towering, 2018Found poster, hand-blown glass, steel hardware, artists frame, 39x62x23 cm
- Gabriele Beveridge, Skin for either one, 2017Found poster, granite, 50x83x7,5 cm
- Goldschmied & Chiari, Enjoy, 2006Resin silicone sculpture, 10 cm spheres diameter, 2 mt
- Goldschmied & Chiari, Enjoy, 2006Resin silicone sculpture, 10 cm spheres diameter, 2 mt
- Irene Fenara, Photo from surveillance camera, 2018Digital print, 50x88,8 cm
- Irene Fenara, Photo from surveillance cameraDigital print, 75x100 cm
- Lydia Gifford, Harbour, 2018Canvas, wood, nails, white clay, oil paint, acrylic, string, towel, 240x139x11 cm
- Lydia Gifford, Caps, 2018Towel on board, glue, nails, oil paint, wood, 43x34,5x9 cm
- Rebecca Ackroyd, Husk, 2017Somerset satin paper, gouache, charchoal, soft pastel, 125x78 cm

- Bea Bonafini


- Bea Bonafini
ALA Art Prize 23 goes to Bea Bonafini with the project “Acque Amare”

- Bea Bonafini,
- Andrea Martinucci,
- Serena Vestrucci
Oct 14 – 16, 2022
Main Section
Pav. 12 – Booth H7

- Bea Bonafini
Feb 1-4, 2019
Main Section
Pav. 25 – Booth A57

- Rebecca Ackroyd,
- Sophie Ko,
- Andrea Martinucci
Oct 13-15, 2018
Pav. 12 – Booth SC7