In the rooms of the Antico Nevaio arrive Giulia Santarini’s moving animals, true imaginative machines: devices balancing between two worlds, they exist in a hybrid dimension that partly looks to imagination, partly to nature, and incorporates the artist’s personal reflection on the fascinating density and complexity of the animal world.
Each element finds new connections, dialoguing with works related by technique or inspiration. These relationships expand the meaning of the original work, inviting the viewer to discover interweavings, references and suggestions that enrich the visual and creative experience in an ever new path.
A multitude of individual elements creates, as in nature, a single large entity: a superorganism with collective intelligence.
I am the desert locust and I teach how the small “I” can become a great “we.” Together we are unstoppable. I am the Monarch butterfly, a symbol of rebirth, change, and transformation.
09/08/2025