MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome presents Ciò che mi guarda (What Looks at Me), the first major museum retrospective in Italy dedicated to the artist Miriam Cahn, curated by the museum’s artistic director Cristiana Perrella.

Born in Basel in 1949, Miriam Cahn is today recognised as one of the most urgent and compelling voices in international contemporary art. Her work – primarily painting, drawing and pastel, performance and installation – spans more than fifty years of practice, sustained by a rare ethical and formal coherence.
The human body, violence, desire, vulnerability and war form the core concerns of an oeuvre that rejects both the aestheticisation of suffering and any form of compromise. Despite the growing international attention devoted to her work in recent years – from the Venice Biennale to major retrospectives at Palais de Tokyo and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – a major survey exhibition in an Italian museum institution had until now yet to be realised.

The exhibition at MACRO designed by Didier Fiúza Faustino // Bureau des Mésarchitectures unfolds across the museum’s main gallery and brings together more than 130 works spanning the artist’s entire career, from the late 1970s to her most recent production. Rather than following a chronological order, the exhibition is structured through thematic constellations that bring works from different periods into dialogue, foregrounding the continuity of Cahn’s artistic and political inquiry and the recurrence of her key concerns: the representation of the female body, the critique of wartime violence, and eroticism as an act of resistance.

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Photos: Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio