CorpoVivo

The body is the first space we inhabit, our first language. It is what defines us, but also what exposes us and sometimes confines us. For this reason, talking about the body means talking about identities, relationships, desires, conflicts and memories. Beyond this, the body is also a field of tension: between the visible and the invisible, between desire and control, between strength and vulnerability, between intimacy and representation, between what we think we know and what we cannot understand. It is both subject and object, depending on the gaze that passes through it and the presence that is attributed to it. The body is now placed at the center of a profound and multidisciplinary artistic investigation: the halls of Salemi Castle host the CorpoVivo group show, becoming rooms of perception, places where a visual and conceptual journey unfolds through the body’s many figurative, symbolic, abstract, and surreal declinations, which speak of identity, fragility, transformation, and resistance. CorpoVivo does not offer definitive answers, but multiplies points of view, reiterating that the body, despite its apparent simplicity, remains one of the most complex, political, and poetic themes of contemporary expression.

CorpoVivo presents nine artists, both emerging and established, create a dialogue between different languages to provide a layered vision of the body as an archive of experiences, a territory of conflict, and a surface of meanings.

The exhibition unfolds following the architectural structure of Salemi’s Castle, becoming itself a living body, traversed by the gaze and imagination of the visitor. At the heart of the reflection is not only the representation of the body, but its ability to become a critical tool: art here becomes a method of investigating reality, a vehicle for emotions, questions and individual visions that intertwine with the universal.