Seven exhibitions on paper, curated by different curators, to look back at the over-thirty-years production of one of Europe's foremost contemporary artists.
Marzia Migliora. Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024 is the first monograph of the artist. Conceived as a
concept book in which the body of works is reinterpreted through seven recurring themes in Marzia Migliora's practice, the book consists of seven exhibitions on paper, each curated by different curators who envisioned them in emblematic locations within the artist's biography, thereby configuring a personal emotional geography that spans Italy—from her birthplace of Alessandria to the salt mines of Sicily. The exhibitions are informed by themes such as rurality, the museum as a place of classification, devices for viewing and perceiving reality, community-building, extractivism, patriarchal oppression, and interspecies metamorphoses related to the passage between life and death.
The book, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti, gathers over thirty years of the artist's production. It includes texts and exhibitions curated by: Diana Campbell, Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Comisso and Nicoletta Leonardi, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Matteo Lucchetti, Adrian Piper, and Andrea Viliani; and contributions by Eva Brioschi,
Emanuele Coccia, Marzia Migliora, Elena Pugliese, Davide Quadrio, and Vandana Shiva.
Marzia Migliora (born 1972 in Alessandria, Italy) is an artist who uses a wide variety of languages, including photography, video, sound, performance, installation, and drawing, to create works that elevate even the simplest human activities to moments that narrate excerpts of collective history. Recurring themes in her work are memory as a means of articulating the present and the analysis of labor as an affirmation of participation in the social sphere.
