HOME ALONE

“Home alone,” the first solo exhibition by Davide Sgambaro (Padua, 1989) in the gallery, is a disarming and essential narrative — lucid in form and profound in content. Through four series of works, the artist gives shape to conflicting emotions that lie between affection and abuse, between childlike innocence and violence, inviting us to reflect on sad emotions often repressed. This is not the first time Sgambaro has tackled these themes: for years, his research has moved along the edges of pain and memory, translating them into a minimal and radical visual language. Home alone is also an experience to be lived and told: every presence, even the faintest, intertwines with the bodies, materials, and techniques used, evoking the ghost of a past trauma. A past that inhabits and empties the space, allowing a sense of horror vacui to emerge, where emptiness is not absence but memory.