Feb 22nd – Apr 21st 2025

exHibit curated by Pietro Gaglianò at Palazzina Indiano Arte, Florence

opening Feb 22nd at 5 pm

A cabbage grown in a pot, a caterpillar colony and a human. The three elements at play are part of a network of relationships that include care and survival, with distinct and overlapping roles where one might be surprised to discover that the human recognises herself as ‘at the same time caretaker and parasite of the cabbage’. The human is also an artist and this is where the awareness, the exercise of observation and the works that synthesise it come from. This conference played on equal terms (even if we ignore what consciousness the animals or the plant have of the artist portraying them) reveals the great beauty of things we only mistakenly call small and expresses a political thought, where anti-specism (criticism of the supremacy of one species over another) overturns the attitude, only human, to overpowering.
Pietro Gaglianò