Identità simboliche e memoria (Symbolic Identities and Memory) – Group Exhibition at Gli Eroici Furori (Milan)
Mostra collettiva alla galleria Gli Eroici Furori di Milano con Eleonora Gugliotta, Giada Grasso e L. Mikelle Standbridge. Inaugurazione l’11 giugno 2025.
I’m pleased to announce my participation in the exhibition Identità simboliche e memoria (Symbolic Identities and Memory), curated by Silvia Agliotti, opening on June 11 at her gallery Gli Eroici Furori in Milan.
I will be exhibiting alongside artists Giada Grasso and L. Mikelle Standbridge, in a three-voice dialogue that explores themes of fragmented identity, memory, and inner transformation.
Exhibition text and catalogue by Elena Vukosavljevic.
On view will be a selection of two of my projects: Ambienti (Environments) and Esiti (Internal Outcomes).
The opening is on June 11 at 6 PM (CET), and the exhibition will run until July 2, open from Tuesday to Friday, and on Saturdays by appointment.
Below you can find the full press release and the exhibition flyer.
IDENTITA’ SIMBOLICHE E MEMORIA
(SYMBOLIC IDENTITIES AND MEMORY)
Giada Grasso, Eleonora Gugliotta, L. Mikelle Standbridge
Curated by Silvia Agliotti
Exhibition text and catalogue by Elena Vukosavljevic
Opening 11 Giugno ore 18
June 11 – July 2, 2025
Exhibition Hours: Tuesday – Friday 3:30 PM – 7:00 PM (CET)
Saturday by appointment
Gli Eroici Furori – Via Melzo 30 – Milan
Porta Venezia
The exhibition at GLI EROICI FURORI presents the work of three artists and centers on a symbolic narrative about identity.
Giada Grasso and Eleonora Gugliotta explore the notion of fragmented and divided identity, in which the human presence sometimes appears as distant, transformed, or reduced to memory. This is the case in Textile Architectures, from the Ambienti (Environments)series, by Eleonora Gugliotta, where abandoned places and invisible presences are reanimated. Giada Grasso, instead, investigates identity through the human nude, highlighting the cognitive gaps that influence the cycles of an individual’s life
The connection between the visible body and invisible psychological processes also emerges in Eleonora Gugliotta’s elaborations of human radiographs.
L. Mikelle Standbridge, for her part, reinterprets objects and symbols of cultural identity not as fixed or predetermined, but as fluid entities—constantly evolving, without borders or owners.
There are symbolic connections between the artists’ works and their poetic visions. Gugliotta’s radiographic elaborations are esiti (outcomes), the visible traces of internal, invisible processes. Through diagnostic observation, we can glimpse only fragments of this cognitive elaboration; the works offer possible visual translations of these inner dynamics. Cognitive processes are also central to Giada Grasso’s series of paintings inspired by the Rorschach test—an intense visual investigation in deep blue tones, revealing the multiple facets of identity and emotion.
Fragmented identity reappears in her work Arlecchino, where the iconic Commedia dell’Arte mask becomes a symbol of youth torn between authenticity and conformity.
In Ambienti #10 – Neurologico, Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra, Eleonora Gugliotta powerfully expresses the inner conflict of human beings placed within organizational systems that become actual “structures of control.
The same series explores other abandoned places—especially rural spaces—where objects and tools become triggers for reflection on memory and time.
Through her Photo Scroll(ing) series, L. Mikelle Standbridge also addresses the theme of identity, following an artist residency in China. In Wall Hanging #5, she evokes Chinese tradition through stitched and waxed images layered on delicate curved papers reminiscent of ancient scrolls. These visual compositions unfold like stratified narratives, where memory and metaphorical storytelling merge through the passage of time and the gestures of those who once used the depicted objects.
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Mostra collettiva alla galleria Gli Eroici Furori di Milano con Eleonora Gugliotta, Giada Grasso e L. Mikelle Standbridge. Inaugurazione l’11 giugno 2025