Marzia Migliora. Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024

Marzia Migliora – Seven Imaginative Exhibitions is Marzia Migliora’s first monograph, bringing together 115 artworks selected from a body of work spanning more than thirty years, from 1993 to the present. Conceived as a concept book in which the body of works is reinterpreted through seven recurring themes in Marzia Migliora’s practice, the book consists of seven exhibitions on paper, each curated by different curators who envisioned them in emblematic locations within the artist’s biography, thereby configuring a personal emotional geography that spans Italy—from her birthplace of Alessandria to the salt mines of Sicily. The exhibitions are informed by themes such as rurality, the museum as a place of classification, devices for viewing and perceiving reality, community-building, extractivism, patriarchal oppression, and interspecies metamorphoses related to the passage between life and death. 

The book, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti, gathers over thirty years of the artist’s production. It includes texts and exhibitions curated by: Diana Campbell, Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Comisso and Nicoletta Leonardi, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Matteo Lucchetti, Adrian Piper, and Andrea Viliani; and contributions by Eva Brioschi, Emanuele Coccia, Marzia Migliora, Elena Pugliese, Davide Quadrio, and Vandana Shiva. Printed on Favini Tokyo (cover) Sappi GalerieArt Volume + Fedrigoni Woodstock (inside). Fonts from ABC Dinamo.

The book is realized with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture as part of the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023) and produced by Looking Forward Art Projects. It is made possible by the generous contributions of Archivorum, Fondazione Torino Musei, and Collezione La Gaia, and with the cultural partnerships with Mao-Museo d’arte orientale, Torino; Museo delle Civiltà, Roma; and Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka.