What Once We Were: Group Show on Childhood at Muratcentoventidue, Bari

The group exhibition 'What Once We Were' at Muratcentoventidue gallery in Bari explores childhood through the works of seven artists from the gallery's roster. Lello Gelao presents magical realist portraits of children against stark flat color fields; Christiano De Gaetano uses divisionist touches to forge vintage imagery; Rita Casdia structures her characters with infantile traits. Video works include Elisabetta Di Sopra's structuralist investigation of play, Kaja Leijon's exploration of childhood informed by Truffaut, Kaia Hugin's surreal performances with her own child, and Cristina Pavesi's film of a music box being destroyed, suggesting either ghosts of an unhappy childhood or a definitive crossing of the shadow line. The show runs at Muratcentoventidue in Bari.