Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze's First Italian Exhibition at Collezione Maramotti

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze presents her first Italian exhibition, 'How to be enough', at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia. The show features fifteen large-scale drawings on paper, installed in the Pattern Room, depicting floating dancers, pools, divers, architectural elements, scooters, and birds—subjects from her personal universe that favor hybrid identities and their spatial relationships. The works were conceived after a 2019 visit to the museum. Alongside the exhibition, Amanze staged a performance titled 'Tell me a way you pretend to be strong', involving three dancers (Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Mor Mendel, and Emilee Lord) who exchange written questions and respond through movement, music by Cedric Hardy. The performance includes props like a metal ladder and a bicycle. Critic Giuseppe Distefano notes that the performance feels fragmented and lacking coherent narrative, suggesting it might have been more effective if integrated with the drawings. The exhibition and performance took place in 2021.