Immersed in the power of speculative fiction, Visentin constructs a landscape where reality and imagination coexist. The exhibition, designed in collaboration with Magda Antoniazzi, takes and remixes its title from the novel by Sally Rooney. It is a search, both intimate and universal, for traces of beauty in a world that often feels fractured and in flux.
At the heart of the exhibition is a yellow DIY wig sculpture incorporating a vintage TV that plays a video and a new song written by Alice Visentin, produced by Mattia “Splendore” Barro, and performed by Natacha Oberson. In the artist’s imagination, the song is written by the fictional band “Il segreto dei dolci.” The hand-painted posters with lyrics and credits represent the merchandising of an imagined “nostalgic pop” hit.
A small room divided by a paper curtain serves as an antechamber for a peephole. In a play of references, the props from the music videos (paper legs, a candle, and an ice cream cone) reappear live in a reinterpretation of Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés (permanently on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art). The artist reimagines the female figure portrayed by Duchamp, in a playful manner. She is reminiscent of a pop-style Artemide Efesia made with a paper and plasticine cut-out with multiple protruding breasts. Through her multidisciplinary approach, Visentin offers a vision of a world not lost but reimagined—one that asks: where are you, and how can we find one another again?

“What interests me most in life and in my work is the creation of new languages, in order to build new and possible paths for the future. To achieve this, I constantly
explore new techniques and I am not afraid to use nonsense, free associations between distant ideas and images, collaborative work, and the layering of different temporalities. For example, I enjoy using ancient techniques to express new ideas— and vice versa.” – Alice Visentin