Photographer: Matt Slater, Courtesy Piero Atchugarry Gallery and the Artist
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Sunday 19 October 2025 - Thursday 27 November 2025

exhibitionSpillovers: Notes on a Phenomenological Ecology

corner MAXXI
free entry
from Tuesday to Sunday
curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi

An unpublished collection by Chris Soal, one of the most influential South African artists on the contemporary scene.

The exhibition presents a series of site-specific artworks that intertwine sculpture, biology and ecology in a visual ecosystem in which everyday materials such as toothpicks, bottle caps, cement and sandpaper lose their original function and are transformed into new forms: cellular proliferations, geological stratifications, architectures of the living.

At the heart of the project is the concept of spillover: of materials, which become something else; of perception, which transcends boundaries and categories; of the imagination, which opens up from the inorganic to the organic.

Soal’s work is a laboratory in which formal rigour and poetic imagination give rise to a phenomenology of reuse, questioning models of consumption and inviting reflection on cycles of transformation and the interconnection between natural, cultural and perceptual systems.

The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph published by Silvana Editoriale, with texts by Giuliana Benassi, Cesare Biasini Selvaggi and Alessandro Romanini.