VESTIGE Solo Exhibition

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VESTIGE

Solo Exhibition by Alice Pasquini

January 23 –  February 14, 2025

Fondazione Primoli, Roma

 

The Fondazione Primoli is delighted to present Vestige, a solo exhibition by artist Alice Pasquini, on view from January 23 to February 14, 2025. This exhibition serves as a meeting point between past and present, where art interprets memory through a visual narrative intertwining history and contemporary expression.

Alice Pasquini’s dialogue with the Primoli photographic archive transforms into a narrative about vestiges: the traces of a past that, despite the passage of time, continues to speak to us.

Drawing inspiration from a selection of photographs preserved in the Foundation’s archive, whose cultural legacy remains vibrant today, Alice recalls fragments of an aristocratic world poised between splendor and decay. Melancholic gazes, sumptuous attire, and urban landscapes emerge as witnesses to a bygone era. The result is a profound reflection on the fleeting beauty of passing time and the marks it leaves behind.

At the heart of the project are female portraits captured by Giuseppe Primoli: faces frozen on film that go beyond mere documentation to become enigmatic and elegant figures embodying 19th-century Rome. These women, central to Alice’s visual language, take on a pivotal role in this cross-temporal dialogue, transforming archival photographs into contemporary relics teetering between oblivion and rediscovery.

Acting as a visual bridge between past and present, Alice has created a series of fabric works that serve as symbolic mediums. Suspended in the library like banners, they appear as phantasmagoric echoes, evoking the fragility and beauty of memory. Through layers and transparencies, these images transform the library into a space of active memory, where 19th-century Rome reflects and resonates with the modern metropolis.

Alice breathes new life into archival imagery, offering a deep meditation on the beauty inherent in decay and the complexities of time. Through visual collages that capture the elusive nature of memory—blending faces, words, and urban scenes of a city flooded by the Tiber in an era before its embankments—the viewer is invited to question what remains and what changes, discovering the mystery of vestiges that continue to speak to us through silence.

Practical Information

The exhibition Vestige will be on view at Fondazione Primoli, Via Giuseppe Zanardelli 1, from January 23 to February 14, 2025. Admission is free.

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