Opening on May 5 at Galleria Studio Cenacchi in Bologna, the exhibition Unstable Ecologies. At the Point Where Everything Transforms , which brings into dialogue the research of Roberta Cavallari and Sabrina Muzi, curated by Raffaele Quattrone. The exhibition constructs a space of tension between two modes through which reality modifies, regenerates, and continuously redefines itself, starting from an implicit question: what does it mean today to observe a landscape? And, above all, what remains invisible within what we believe we see? If Muzi works on a dimension of emergence and invisible vitality, Roberta Cavallari instead introduces a subtle fracture in the visible. Her paintings, while maintaining a figurative basis, are traversed by minimal shifts that alter the relationship between elements and produce a sensation of misalignment. Interiors apparently neutral, often devoid of human presence, configure themselves as suspended spaces in which architectures, perspectives, and light sources assume a dominant, almost structural role. In the landscapes, signs emerge that refer to a human or technological intervention: monitors that return unreal atmospheric images, natural forms that assume artificial qualities, geometric elements that insert themselves as ambiguous presences, between constructed object and digital simulation. These anomalies do not produce evident ruptures, but act through slippage, insinuating themselves into perception and making visible a transformation already in act. The world represented by Cavallari is not a hypothetical future, but the present itself, observed through the logics of the Anthropocene, in which nature and artifice are by now deeply intertwined. The dialogue between the two artists is not constructed on a contraposition between natural and artificial, but on a more complex and contemporary tension: on one side a force that continues to generate and regenerate itself, on the other a transformation that profoundly modifies the conditions of the visible. In this intermediate space, painting assumes a critical and perceptive function. It does not limit itself to representing the world, but interrogates its thresholds, making visible those processes—natural or cultural—that operate beneath or beyond immediate perception. Unstable Ecologies thus configures itself as a field of attention: an invitation to remain in the point where everything transforms, where growth and mutation, continuity and alteration coexist without resolving themselves, continuously redefining our way of inhabiting and perceiving.
(excerpt from the press release)