Silvia Camporesi: Uno Strappo nel Cielo di Carta
Current exhibition
Overview
z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to present Uno strappo nel cielo di carta, a solo exhibition by Silvia Camporesi (Forlì, 1973), this time invited to engage with the gallery’s space at Via Alessandro Volta 34.
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Camporesi is interested in identifying and revealing the uncanny inherent in places and objects. Over the years, she has distinguished herself through her original use of photography in a meta-real, abstract sense, showing what remains liminal and unexpressed in the contemporary landscape.
Through her conceptual use of photographic language, the artist explores latent and enigmatic images that unsettle our perception, even when they appear to depict normality.
In the exhibition Uno strappo nel cielo di carta — a title inspired by a passage from Luigi Pirandello — Silvia Camporesi presents a new series of colour photographs portraying submerged, mysterious and often forgotten places. Exposed to temporal and natural decay, these sites of the past retain, in their dissipating image, the sense of unease described by Sigmund Freud when defining the uncanny: an expression of both the familiar and the frightening, which disturbs the gaze and leaves the observer in a 'threshold' state between the known and the repressed. The oblivion of our time, which constantly looks to the past in order to preserve human memory without losing it, is the result of the liminal stage we experience daily: uncertain and uneasy in the face of a predictable yet uncontrollable present.
The exhibition is complemented by some vintage works by the artist that address themes of identity and the relationship with literary imagination.
The show is accompanied by a critical essay by Marinella Paderni, who has followed Silvia Camporesi’s artistic development from the outset.
Da sempre interessata a individuare e a rivelare il perturbante insito nei luoghi e nelle cose, Silvia Camporesi si è distinta negli anni per la sua originalità nell’impiegare la fotografia in senso metareale, astraente, mostrando ciò che resta liminale e inespresso nel paesaggio contemporaneo.
Grazie a un uso concettuale del linguaggio fotografico, l’artista esplora quelle immagini latenti ed enigmatiche che inquietano il nostro vedere, anche quando sembrano mostrare in apparenza la normalità del mondo.
Nella mostra Uno strappo nel cielo di carta - titolo ispirato da un brano di Luigi Pirandello - Silvia Camporesi presenta un ciclo inedito di fotografie a colori che ritraggono luoghi sommersi, misteriosi, spesso dimenticati. Esposti al declino temporale e naturale, questi luoghi del passato trattengono nella loro immagine dissipata quella inquietudine di cui parla Sigmund Freud nel definire il perturbante, espressione di familiare e spaventoso insieme che turba lo sguardo lasciando l’osservatore in uno stato di ‘soglia’ tra il certo e il rimosso. L’oblio del nostro tempo, che tanto guarda al passato per trattenere la memoria dell'umano e non smarrirla, è l’effetto di questo stadio liminale che viviamo quotidianamente, incerti e inquieti davanti a un presente prevedibile ma incontrollato.
Completano la mostra alcuni vintage dell’artista sui temi dell’identità e della relazione con l’immaginario letterario.
La mostra è accompagnata da un testo critico di Marinella Paderni, che ha seguito la ricerca artistica di Silvia Camporesi sin dagli esordi.
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INFO:
Silvia Camporesi | Uno strappo nel cielo di carta
with a text by Marinella Paderni
Opening Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 6-9 pm
January 28 → March 12, 2026
z2o Sara Zanin, via Alessandro Volta 34 – 00153 Roma
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday | 12-7 pm
T. +39 06 80073146 | info@z2ogalleria.it
Installation Views
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Installation View | Silvia Camporesi, Uno strappo nel cielo di carta, z2o Sara Zanin, 2026
Ph. Roberto Apa
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Installation View | Silvia Camporesi, Uno strappo nel cielo di carta, z2o Sara Zanin, 2026
Ph. Roberto Apa
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Installation View | Silvia Camporesi, Uno strappo nel cielo di carta, z2o Sara Zanin, 2026
Ph. Roberto Apa
Works
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Silvia Camporesi, Shimmering Cinecittà, 2024, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 80 × 60 (framed: cm 84 × 64)
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Silvia Camporesi, Shimmering Cinecittà, 2024, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 60 × 80 (framed: cm 64 x 84)
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Silvia Camporesi, Unheimlich, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 20 x 30 (framed: cm 24 x 34)
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Silvia Camporesi, Il sale del pensiero, 2005, Lambda vintage print (print from 2005), from 6 × 4.5 cm negative scan mounted on ultra-lightweight panel, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/4. cm 54 x 70 (framed: cm 58 x 74)
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Silvia Camporesi, Geotesta, 2005, Lambda vintage print (print from 2005), from a scanned 6 × 4.5 negative mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame,
UV70 museum glass. Edition: 2/4. cm 70 x 50 (framed: cm 74 x 54)
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Silvia Camporesi, Via dolorosa, 2005, Lambda vintage print (print from 2005), from a scan of a 6 × 4.5 negative, mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 2/4. cm 70 x 100 (framed: cm 74 x 104)
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Silvia Camporesi, Kistefos Sculpture Park, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 60 × 80 (framed: cm 64 x 84)
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Silvia Camporesi, Pont de Rohan, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper, mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass.
Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 80 x 60 (framed: cm 84 x 64)
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Silvia Camporesi, Shimmering Cinecittà, 2024, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 150 x 75 (framed: cm 154 x 79)
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Silvia Camporesi, Unheimlich #2, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 30 x 40 (framed: cm 34 x 44)
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Silvia Camporesi, Unheimlich #2, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 40 x 30 (framed: cm 44 x 34)
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Silvia Camporesi, Unheimlich #2, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 40 x 30 (framed: cm 44 x 34)
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Silvia Camporesi, Unheimlich #2, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 30 x 40 (framed: cm 34 x 44)
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Silvia Camporesi, Onferno grotto, 2017, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 60 x 40 (framed: cm 64 x 44)
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Silvia Camporesi, Onferno grotto, 2017, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 40 x 60 (framed: cm 44 x 64)
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Silvia Camporesi, After Baia, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 90 x 120 (framed: cm 94 x 124)
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Silvia Camporesi, Unheimlich #1, 2025, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 1/5 + 2 A.P. cm 75 x 150 (framed: cm 79 x 154)
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Silvia Camporesi, Leggero-pesante, 2005, Lambda vintage print (print from 2005), from a scan of a 6 × 4.5 negative, mounted on Dibond, painted wooden frame, UV70 museum glass. Edition: 2/4. cm 100 x 50
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