ARTISSIMA 2024

Flowers

BOOTH LIGHT BLUE nº4

Rosa Santos gallery presents the work of Jacopo Miliani for Artissima 2024.

Flowers is an inedited project that brings together artist’s work, publications and a tapestry that he made in collaboration with his parents. Through different formats and media, the booth aims to give an overview of the changing production of Miliani who for years has been developing a personal research on sexuality, language, queerness and underground cultures, using materials from the past to reinvent the present and think about the future.

At the center of the stand there is a series of works (There is a light…, 2024) composed of vintage flashing lights (in the shape of flowers), transparent Perspex sheets and archive photographs (found-footage). This series, never exhibited before, presents an ephemeral and poetic relationship between the photographed bodies – oren captured in theatrical gestures – and the melancholic rhythm of the constantly repeating flashing lights. The photographs re-emerge in a different context, far from the one that may have given rise to them: it is not important who the author is, the shot happens in the encounter between the image and the gaze.

At the entrance to the stand there is a “reading table” that collects all the publications produced so far by the artist or those that have included a special contribution by him, including all the projects of SelfPleasurePublishing, the independent publishing house that Miliani founded in 2014. The presentation collects, for the first time, artist’s books, monographs, Xerox books, fanzines, postcards, fabric prints in order to offer an overview of the artist’s research and personal archive.