Resonance of Self
Posted on November 09 2025
The exhibition Resonance of Self, hosted at the Millepiani space in Rome from October 10 to November 20, 2025, and part of the program of Rome Art Week 2025, invites visitors to immerse themselves in a visual journey across the complex and shifting territories of identity. Photography, video, and digital visual design intertwine to give shape to a single, overarching reflection: the self as an echo in continuous transformation—fragile, ephemeral, resonant.
The works on display emerge from intimate experiences yet speak with a universal voice. They are images born in moments of uncertainty, when life seems to slip through one’s hands and the only way to grasp the ineffable is to observe it, frame it, and transform it. They are not documents but traces: meditations on presence, impermanence, and the subtle line separating the inner from the outer, memory from the present, light from shadow. These visions are not a search for answers, but an attempt to make perceptible what would otherwise remain invisible.
The resonance of the self manifests in the body, which becomes a vulnerable threshold and a ground for metamorphosis. At times, the body dissolves, losing its contours, no longer a home but a fragile glow, a movement of light that blurs presence and absence. At other times, it opens to the possibility of rebirth, intertwining with nature, becoming a site of healing and a symbol of growth, a space where identity and transformation prove inseparable. In this oscillation, the body reveals both its precariousness and its strength, its ability to break apart and recompose itself while never ceasing to vibrate.
Memory, too, reveals itself as an integral part of identity. Through archives and intimate photographs, the story of a life marked by displacements, losses, and migrations takes shape: stories belonging to someone yet resonating with everyone, for they question the very meaning of belonging and time. Broken roots, traversed territories, suspended ties—all sediment as emotional weight that shapes who we are. Memory becomes a second skin, invisible yet always present, vibrating alongside the body and the gaze.
The self manifests not only in the concreteness of the body or the persistence of memory, but also in the suspended spaces of intimacy. Photographs resembling secret gardens, fragments of a fragile and ever-changing Eden, capture moments in which time seems to dissolve into contemplation. Bodies and landscapes overlap, evoking the fragility of emotions and sensations. It is in the ephemerality of photography itself—in the light that reveals and immediately fades, in the breath that passes through the frame—that the precariousness and beauty of existence are embodied.
Alongside this poetic dimension lies the necessity of play and experimentation. Through video and digital languages, the image of the self is deformed, multiplied, reinvented. Looking too closely at oneself may mean getting lost in perceived flaws, yet the creative gaze transforms those flaws into expressive possibilities. Self-perception thus becomes a playful act, an exercise in freedom, an invitation to embrace one’s uniqueness with curiosity and lightness.
These works do not overlook the dimension of conflict. Some images stage the experience of isolation: the feeling of being out of place in hostile environments, whether social, cultural, or geographical. It is the discomfort of estrangement, but also its transformative potential. In the very act of recording this displacement, identity discovers new forms of expression, new ways of existing.
In all the works, the resonance of the self does not appear as something stable, but as an unstable vibration crossing bodies, memories, spaces, and relationships. Each image is a threshold, a passageway where identity reveals itself in its provisional, fragile, yet fertile and creative nature.
Resonance of Self is therefore an experience that invites us to slow down, to listen to these subtle resonances, to recognize in the artists’ stories a reflection of our own. In a time marked by uncertainty, fragmentation, and constant transformation, the exhibition reminds us that the self is never a closed form, but an echo that accompanies us, multiplies, and regenerates.
At Millepiani in Rome, this chorus of images becomes a single breath: an invitation to perceive our identity not as a boundary, but as a shared vibration—fragile and luminous—that continues to resonate.
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