Merzbau Quantico
From 06.04.2025 to 28.06.2025
Nashira Gallery is pleased to present Merzbau Quantico, the solo exhibition by the artist LETIA – Letizia Cariello (1963), which will open on Saturday, April 5th, from 9:30 a.m to 12:00 p.m and will be accompanied by a critical essay by Caroline Corbetta.
With her first solo show at Nashira, LETIA – Letizia Cariello, develops and deepens the language and central themes of her research, which has been consolidated over more than twenty years of activity. The large installation, which gathers and integrates for the first time all the fundamental elements of her artistic vocabulary, from the Calendars to the Gates, from photographic research to red ropes and ship’s bollards, revisits and enriches the themes explored in her recent exhibitions: the immersive installation at the Grande Miglio in Brescia and the site-specific intervention at the Fondazione Made in Cloister in Naples.
As LETIA herself states, Merzbau Quantico not only refers to the implicit title, which recalls the layered construction around the body’s dwelling initiated by Kurt Schwitters, but it is also connected to the exploration of the fourth dimension proposed by quantum physics. The reference to the natural world is particularly emphasized, which the artist defines as a “New Narnia,” or rather, a “Quantum Narnia,” in which nature, with plant elements sewn to red ropes and bucrania or bronze branches, is reinterpreted through the artist’s lens. She presents herself as a human being who is an integral part of Nature, beyond any primitive interpretation, with all that human thought entails. A human who absorbs, digests, and redraws nature through the subtle and inner world that defines us as thinking and symbolizing beings. The presences, reworked into visions, appear through the interweaving of ropes, which travel and redesign the entire space of the gallery, integrating it as an active element of a unique immersive work. Gates and Calendars, glimpsed between golden palms, invite visitors to move through the space to better perceive it, thus transitioning from external observers to active participants in a shared vision.
