Silvia Argiolas's 'You Can't Make an Omelet Without Breaking Some Eggs' at Microba, Bari

Silvia Argiolas (Cagliari, 1977) presents a solo exhibition at Microba gallery in Bari, titled 'You Can't Make an Omelet Without Breaking Some Eggs.' The show transforms the space into a domestic environment, deliberately left imperfect, with a large anthropomorphic carpet on the floor from which objects, limbs, faces, and sparks erupt in a biomorphic effect, suggesting self-generating life forms. A reinterpreted classical vase greets visitors at the entrance, and a narrative frieze of 10×15 postcards runs along the gallery perimeter. The works feature accumulation, an intimate and unsettling universe of mostly female figures, human types, and stereotypes of dark women seen through others' eyes. Curator Nicola Zito describes the exhibition as an irregular fresco of the domestic sphere, contingent on everyday reality. The artist, like a darker Alice in Wonderland (with two clocks referencing Lewis Carroll), invites viewers into her private space. The exhibition was held in 2019.