Janina Lucia Beha's Solo Exhibition at Magazzini UTO in Macerata

Janina Lucia Beha (born 1988, Filderstadt), known as Nini, presents a solo exhibition at Magazzini UTO (former Unione Tipografica Operaia) in Macerata. The show is a journey through objects from her past that left a mark, with a renewed research in the present becoming a ritual tied to the idea of cataloging. The installation of her Spirals, lines, and four-leaf clovers recalls the display used by Fondazione Prada for the Betye Saar exhibition. References to artists such as De Dominicis and Duchamp are present, notably a chessboard with snails as pawns, echoing the spiral motif and the ouroboros symbol. Recycled materials and objects carrying deformed or implied stories—like a paper boat evoking childhood or ocean lines—represent a process of fossilization, a recovery of life, death, and memory.