Zaelia Bishop's Solo Show at AlbumArte in Rome

Zaelia Bishop, born in Rome in 1977, presents a solo exhibition at AlbumArte in Rome. The show features works made from reclaimed stone blocks sourced from abandoned quarries and houses, highlighting fractures and cuts as visible boundaries. Bishop uses these materials to trace ultimate limits and ideal poles of countless possible historical trajectories. The works remain unnamed, emphasizing the obscurity of denominations. Graphite embedded in wood serves as a terrestrial counterpart to chronological boundaries, offering intuitions of lost coordinates. The exhibition reconfigures ideas of time and space through inert works as a new realistic interpretive category, connecting destruction, construction, and vision. The text is by Raffaele Orlando, an archaeologist and official at the Ministry of Culture specializing in museology and collection history, who works at the Reggia di Caserta.