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Around Myself: Female Perspectives on Interiority at Muratcentoventidue, Bari

exhibition · 2026-05-04

The exhibition 'Around Myself' at Muratcentoventidue in Bari brings together five female artists exploring the complex relationship between interiority and external relations, primarily through video. Parisa Ghaderi uses the alternation of gaze fixity and object movement to create an insurmountable separation. Claudia Maina's 'BedBugs Castle' materializes physical and emotional distance through tiny wooden figures imprisoned in fragile glass separations. Sissa Micheli works with frozen images and metaphysical suspensions of bodies floating in empty rooms. Muriel Montini creates triptychs on incommunicability reminiscent of Antonioni's cinema. Margarida Paiva features transparent figures traversing cold Norwegian forest landscapes, vanishing like ghosts.

Key facts

  • Exhibition 'Around Myself' at Muratcentoventidue in Bari
  • Features five female artists: Parisa Ghaderi, Claudia Maina, Sissa Micheli, Muriel Montini, Margarida Paiva
  • Focus on video and the relationship between interiority and external relations
  • Parisa Ghaderi is Iraqi
  • Claudia Maina's work 'BedBugs Castle' uses tiny wooden figures in glass separations
  • Muriel Montini's triptychs evoke Antonioni's cinema
  • Margarida Paiva is Portuguese and uses Norwegian forest settings
  • Review by Marilena Di Tursi

Entities

Artists

  • Parisa Ghaderi
  • Claudia Maina
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Muriel Montini
  • Margarida Paiva

Institutions

  • Muratcentoventidue
  • Artribune
  • Corriere del Mezzogiorno
  • Corriere della Sera
  • Segno arte contemporanea

Locations

  • Bari
  • Italy
  • Norway

Sources