Louise Giovanelli's Cinematic Voyeurism at Frutta Gallery

Frutta Gallery in Rome presents a solo exhibition by London-based artist Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993), whose work explores voyeurism through oil painting. The show opens with a still from Michael Powell's 1960 film 'Peeping Tom', in which a murderer films his victims' dying expressions. Giovanelli translates this cinematic moment onto canvas in two identical, disorienting portraits of a silent woman. A labyrinth of mirrors adds further distortion, while the oil paint and color filters evoke social media aesthetics. Other works shift to geometric divisions of space, with intense, grave tones and occasional chromatic violence, as in 'Palisade' (2019). The interplay of color and composition channels passion and tension, reinforcing the theme of looking without touching.