ON VIEW

curaetd by Elisa Carollo
06.06.2025 > 30.08.2025
Opening hours | Thursady 2:00 > 7:00 pm, Friday and Saturday 10:30 am >12:30 pm – 2:00 > 7:00 pm Free admission.
Speech Weavers, curated by Elisa Carollo, is the first solo exhibition in Italy by British artist Paloma Proudfoot and presents a site-specific project by the artist. At the heart of the exhibition, the major work Speech Weavers, a large ceramic work installed as an altarpiece, transforms the act of listening into a sculptural image, revealing the transformative power of sound as an active gesture of interconnection. Proudfoot’s ceramics explore the body as a fluid and fragmented entity, permeable to time, environment, and emotions. In a dialogue between feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and medieval symbology, the exhibition stages the vulnerability and power of corporeal existence, redefining the body as a site of continuous metamorphosis and as a sensitive threshold between individual and world.
Paloma Proudfoot / artist
Paloma Proudfoot (b. 1992, London) is a sculptor working across media to explore the body as a site of identity, memory and social construction. Central to her work is an exploration of embodied memory, physical vulnerability and collective rituals, resulting in a profound reflection on intimate dynamics and interpersonal exchanges often expressed through craft-based processes and tactile materials like clay and fabric. She holds a BA in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. Proudfoot has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including at The Approach, London (2024); Soy Capitan, Berlin (2023); Bosse & Baum, London (2022); Sans Titre, Paris (2019); and Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2018). Her work has also featured in group exhibitions at Fondation Carmignac (2024); Hauser & Wirth Somerset (2024); Goldsmiths CCA, London (2023); Bold Tendencies, London (2022); KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (2022); CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2022); Den Frie, Copenhagen (2021); Southbank Centre, London (2021); and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019). She is currently included in Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition traveling across the U.K. from October 2024 to May 2026. Proudfoot has participated in residencies at Tramway, Glasgow (with Piasecka); Moly Sabata, France; IMMA, Dublin (with Stasis); and the Thun Ceramic Residency, Italy.
Elisa Carollo / curator
Elisa Carollo is an art advisor, curator, art writer and USPAP-compliant appraiser with a focus on
contemporary and ultra-contemporary art. She holds an MA in Art, Law, and Business from Christie’s, New
York and a BA in Marketing and Management of Cultural and Creative Industries from IULM University,
Milan.
Starting in the secondary market and then transitioning to primary, writing and curation, Elisa Carollo can
boast +8 years in the art industry, serving in different roles in both commercial and institutional settings.
Following her experience with the international art advisory firm Gurr Johns and a Family office in Milan,
she works for the Benetton family’s art foundation, Fondazione Imago Mundi in Treviso, which she advises
for international projects and relations. Meanwhile, in New York, she has also co-directed and curated the
program of Pintô International, the New York outpost of the most important museum for Contemporary Art in the Philippines, and co-directed the contemporary art gallery Swivel Gallery, specializing in up-andcoming talents. Elisa Carollo today works mostly as a freelance advisor for collectors, galleries, and artists and writes about art and its market for international magazines and platforms such as Il Giornale dell’Arte (The Art Newspaper Italy, by Allemandi) Eazel and Collezione da Tiffany, among others.
Since June 2024, she has written for Observer New York as the main art reporter.
As curator, Carollo was part of the curatorial team for the inaugural edition of the Malta Biennale held in
2024. She has also been part of the curatorial group for Fondazione Quadriennale to monitor the Italian
contemporary art scene and part of the curatorial team for the Italian Pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023). She recently joined the IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). Carollo curates various exhibitions in collaboration with galleries in different countries, aiming to function as a connector, facilitate the global circulation of valuable talents and introduce artists in new regions.