Grossi Maglioni's Cosmic Camp at AlbumArte

The artist duo Grossi Maglioni—Vera Maglioni and Francesca Grossi, both born in Rome in 1982—have taken over the spaces of AlbumArte in Rome with an immersive installation that transforms the gallery into a constantly evolving camp. Their work employs weapons with optical sights, camouflage masks, high offensive capacity, and paranormal forces, creating a provisional settlement that changes through continuous workshops. Over ten years of research, the duo's performative practices have remained fluid, making a conventional retrospective impossible. Instead, the three rooms of the gallery are filled with intentions to investigate human behavior, actively involving visitors in a cosmogony that reveals the prodigious nature of their operation. The article by Raffaele Orlando describes this as an irresistible attraction where enlistment becomes a natural choice.