Blanca Gracia's 'Marginalia' at Galleria Ada in Rome

Galleria Ada in Rome presents 'Marginalia', the first Italian solo exhibition of Spanish artist Blanca Gracia (Madrid, 1989). The show transforms the gallery into a symbolic garden where suspended identities—'between two bodies: human and vegetable'—choose metamorphosis as a gesture of defense and freedom. Gracia's delicate works in copper and brass leaf populate the space as imaginary botany and dramaturgy of becoming. Pieces include 'Nightmare', a suspended mare distilling oscillation between nightmare and lightness; 'Gossip', a pair of harpies with discomposed wings and faces turning gossip into sorority; 'En la boca cerrada no entran moscas', where the admonition of silence imposed on women becomes memory of the artist's fisherman grandfather; 'Finocchi', two fennel plants in love annulling offense; and a pair of hands, one with six fingers on which reeds grow, referencing the myth of Daphne. The large 'Boquila Trifoliata', known for its mimicry, is enriched with eyes and blue glass tears. At the center grows 'Waq Waq', a tree from Persian mythology teeming with leaves, insects, and small presences in dialogue, accompanied by imaginary pre-human sounds. Gracia references Merleau-Ponty's idea that nature is not 'in front of us' but what sustains us. The exhibition runs at Galleria Ada in Rome.