Book Launch of Marzia Migliora's Monography

About

Marzia Migliora. Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024 is the first monograph of the artist. Curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti and published by Nero in a bilingual edition (Italian and English), the book is realised with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture as part of the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023). It 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.

The book will be previewed in London on Wednesday, 30 October, at the Italian Cultural Institute, with a conversation between Marzia Migliora (artist), Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti (curators of the book) Maja and Reuben Fowkes (authors), Carolina Lio (director, Looking Forward Art Projects).

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 finally, interspecies metamorphoses related to the passage between life and death.