edited by Ivan Quaroni
until March 29, 2026
Friday – Sunday, 5.00pm – 7.30pm and by appointment
Laranarossa Gallery
via Montevecchio 19–21, Modena
Info: 338 6628358
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Certain images preserve residues that pass through time, traces that resurface as latent presences of past experiences.
The exhibition brings the works of Paola Geranio and Cristina Iotti into dialogue, in both paths the past re-emerges as an active element, capable of reorganizing itself in new forms through different but convergent practices.
The title of the exhibition recalls the idea that the past never completely disappears, but continues to resurface in the form of traces, memories, silent presences. A concept close to hauntology, theorized by the philosopher Jacques Derrida and taken up by the writer Mark Fisher to describe the constant return of what seemed lost.
Paola Geranio works with painting starting from family photographs, especially scenes of children's games. He transforms them into intense and colorful images, where the bodies seem connected by an invisible energy. The colors, also inspired by the symbolism of the Tarot and the chakras, do not describe reality but an emotional state. In his paintings the past becomes a constellation of relationships, a tangle of bonds, memories and family dynamics that continues to act in the present.
Cristina Iotti, with her period Non-Compliant, instead addresses a little-known page of Italian history: the women interned in mental institutions during fascism because they were judged "irreverent", "unstable" or "impertinent". Starting from medical records, the artist reconstructs their faces with the help of Artificial Intelligence. The images are then printed in cyanotype, treated manually and placed in small drawers together with period objects. Each work thus becomes a treasure chest of memory, a way to restore identity to those who had been reduced to a label.
In different ways, both artists bring to light what has been forgotten.
