Paolo Radi's 'Peregrinus' at VOLUME! Explores Mystical Pilgrimage

The exhibition 'Peregrinus' by Paolo Radi (born 1966, Rome) is on view at VOLUME! in Rome until May 11. The show presents six installations that evoke fragmented, archaic, and speechless traces. Works include bizarre architectures, baptismal font mirages, broken frames, torn manuscript pages, and light beams cutting through darkness. Sculptural pieces in perspex and opalescent plastics resemble tapestries with stamps, numbers, and words. The artist, who identifies as atheist, draws on references to the Fontanone dell'Acqua Paola at Gianicolo, the Shell of Saint James, and the discovery of Saint Cecilia's remains and Pope Clement VIII's reaction. The exhibition is conceived as a disconnected sequence of theatrical images, rejecting coherent world-building.