Three Women Artists Explore Memory and Matter at LABS Gallery Bologna

The group exhibition 'PEOPLE I KNOW' at LABS Gallery in Bologna transforms the space into a single installation, inviting viewers to participate in a 'spectacular and live' event, as curator Giulia Marchi writes. The show features works by Elisabeth Sonneck (born 1962 in Bünde), Finja Sander (born 1996 in Hildesheim), and Lucia Cristiani (born 1991 in Milan), who operate between Milan and Berlin. Their pieces create a continuous process of metamorphosis where past and present dialogue without nostalgia. Materials take center stage: Sonneck and Sander use glass, paper, and industrial packaging to grant materials agency equal to the human body, treating them as archives capable of change, resistance, and historical dialogue. Cristiani works with ash and steel spheres, merging organic and sculptural elements in an alchemical balance. For all three artists, the body is a collective and political entity, a generator of memories that embeds itself in space and matter. The title 'PEOPLE I KNOW' references the familiar and the recurring, intertwining personal practice with a broader vision. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Giulia Marchi.