25/06/2026 - 12/09/2026
ARIA ART GALLERY is pleased to present The Body is Indestructible, a group exhibition conceived in collaboration with and curated by WHY NAT Projects, bringing together works by Marina Abramović, Pietro Lista, Thelonious Stokes, Sossio, Szymon Oltarzewski, Andy Warhol, Daniele Sigalot, Salustiano, Carole Feuerman, Cristiano Pintaldi, Michelangelo Bastiani, Andrea Guastavino and Veljko Vučković.
What you see and perceive is not the body as an object, but the body as a living testimony to a deeper reality, one that continuously transforms yet never disappears. Far from being a fixed form or a mere container, the body is a sensitive instrument that records, attracts, reflects, and projects the emotional, psychological, and symbolic forces that move through it.
The body cannot lie. It carries the memory of your experiences, preserving the traces of the wounds, fears, and challenges that have shaped your journey. Scars and vulnerabilities reveal truths that the mind often seeks to conceal. In this way, the body becomes a visible expression of an invisible process, continually shaping your experience of reality and your perception of yourself. To accept a wound, even to bless it, is to recognize its transformative power. For it is through your fractures that deeper awareness emerges and new possibilities of being unfold. What appears broken becomes a doorway to your innate integrity, revealing a dimension of yourself that has never been divided, wounded, and can never be destroyed (Text inspired by Elio D’Anna)
The Body is Indestructible unfolds across three distinct exhibition spaces. In the main space is presented a rare canvas work by Marina Abramović, Woman in Green (1965), in which the figure appears engaged in a symbolic process of bodily liberation and gradual emancipation from the layered constructions of identity. In dialogue with this work, pieces by Pietro Lista, Thelonious Stokes, Sossio, and Szymon Oltarzewski explore the body as an archetypal and primordial presence. The second room and third room features works by Andy Warhol’s Ladies and Gentlemen series (1975), currently on view at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, examining the representation of the body as the boundary between masculine and feminine identity. The works of Daniele Sigalot, Salustiano, and Carole Feuerman traverse diverse techniques and expressive languages, addressing themes of self through image construction, perceptual alteration, and hyperreal presence; the works in relation to photography and video of Michelangelo Bastiani and Andrea Guastavino enter dialogue with the paintings of Veljko Vučković and Cristiano Pintaldi, often inspired by the world of cinema.
Through different media and across generations, The Body is Indestructible proposes a reading of the body as a living archive, one that is, at the same time, indestructible.