ECCPROJECTS #24 Alina Vergnano

13 January – 9 February 2025
Open by appointment only

ECC Project Room
Via Martiri della Libertà 2
10023 Chieri TO Italy

Captions of the works exhibited:
– Alina Vergnano, Happenings, 2024, acrylic, oil pastel, dry pastel and water on linen, 200 x 120 cm
– Alina Vergnano, Passages, 2024, dry pastel and water on canvas, 150 x 110 cm

Alina Vergnano (Turin, 1989) lives and works in Oslo.

With the line as a point of departure, Alina explores concepts of fluidity, time and entanglement working at the intersection between drawing and painting.
On her large-format canvases, she uses dry pastels, paint and water applied in washes, to create dynamic and monumental images where the figure dissolves into abstraction. As the figure’s boundaries fade into gesture, the focus of her work shifts to sensation, turning the body into a place of feeling, a non-contained and open subject, fluid and multifaceted as experience itself.
Her paintings are often presented in site-specific installations that engage with architecture or natural landscapes and with the body. While the scale of the works encourages a movement in space, the fluid quality of the images and their spatial juxtapositions suggest a continuous state of unfolding, where multiple readings can coexist.