The exhibition is located at MA-EC Gallery, organized by ADArt & A4U.
In an era where the boundary between truth and fiction, reality and appearance, is increasingly blurred, duality is no longer a simple opposition between two poles but a state of coexistence where opposites remain in constant tension. This collective exhibition, “Duality. Nothing is as it appears?”, is a deep exploration of this condition. By inviting viewers to question what they see, it reveals that absolutes do not exist; every form, identity, or structure contains the seed of its own contradiction within.
The dimension of time emerges as a primary site of perceptual instability. Agostino Tulumello constructs complex visuals with chromatic layering and grids, challenging objective perception. Horst Beyer, meanwhile, transforms industrial materials like discarded electrical wires, making invisible energy perceptible through a tangible painterly language. Identity is presented as a fragile and procedural construction: Antonio Alberti uses ephemeral materials to reflect on memory and loss; Han Chai explores the conflict between visibility and erasure through everyday objects; Chiara Vellini employs red in tension with its opposites to depict trauma and rebirth; and Laura Zeni turns nature into a psychological space, exploring the dialogue between the individual and the world.
The exhibition further encompasses themes of control and release , history and migration, inner tension , self-construction under social pressure , the rebellion of the vessel the intermediary space of language, the non-binary logic of natural systems , and the unpredictability within algorithms .
Ultimately, the exhibition does not provide answers but invites viewers to accept complexity not as a problem to be solved, but as a condition to be inhabited.
