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the hollow men

Dates
28.05.2025 | 31.08.2025
Location
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
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The Artist

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Giulia Cenci

Giulia Cenci was born in Cortona, Italy, 1988 and now lives and work in Amsterdam and Tuscany.


In her process of observation Giulia Cenci selects elements that are irrelevant details of industrial objects or parts of our environment, capable of expressing vulnerabilities, promises and failures of human activity. The consequences of our past, the structure of society and the conditions of the self in a contemporaneity defined by products and avatars, suggest to the artist visions of hypothetical habitats. Here, discarded objects and natural elements merge with animal and human prototypes, organized in serial groups or isolated in search of subjectivity. The figures and the structures form environments devoid of logical hierarchical order. Concepts such as species or gender are questioned, in an attempt to overthrow a real form of dominance of a group or of an individual over another. These installations show a constant sense of duplicity: belonging to forms and designs known and repeated in our present and an exasperation of sculptural actions, in an attempt to obtain strongly impure objects. Technique and technology, repetition, similarity and the idea of reproduction populate surroundings where the visitors’ bodies often are part, becoming additional matter reacting with “the rest”.


Her works have been exhibited among others at the 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams, the High Line in New York, MUDAM in Luxemburg, Goldsmith CCA in London, the MAXXI in Rome, the Pecci Center in Prato and the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene.