The title of Chiara Camoni’s solo exhibition for Pirelli HangarBicocca reads like an incantation: “Chiamare a raduno. Sorelle. Falene e fiammelle. Ossa di leonesse, pietre e serpentesse.” (Translated to English: “Call and gather. Sisters. Moths and flame twisters. Lioness bones, snakes and stones.”). Indeed, the exhibition curated by Lucia Aspesi and Fiammetta Griccioli opens the spiritual and mystical dimension of Camoni’s drawings, vegetable printings, videos, sculptures, and ceramics.
From now until mid-July, Pirelli HangarBicocca showcases the largest body of Camoni’s historical works ever presented, alongside new productions conceived and created especially for the exhibition such as The Three Snakes (2024) and Serpenti e Serpentesse (2024). Characterized by the use of household objects and organic elements, Camoni’s works of multiple mediums use production methodologies that invoke a strong connection to the ancestral and archaic worlds. The exhibit’s radial floor plan creates the perfect architecture of corridors, rooms, and an empty nucleus around which the project revolves, transforming the exhibition into a gathering and giving life to Camoni’s artistic architecture of collectivity and memory.
Exhibition of Chiara Camoni “Call and gather. Sisters. Moths and flame twisters. Lioness bones, snakes and stones.” at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2024, photo by Agostino Osio, courtesy of the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.
