This digital exhibition brings together emerging artists working across sculpture, painting, and multimedia practices, united by a shared conceptual exploration of the body as a dynamic field of forces. Rather than being a fixed or representational subject, the body emerges through the interplay of light, shadow, materiality, and spatial relations, generating presence, trace, and transformation.

Marco Merati investigates perception through sculptural surfaces and projections, showing how light and shadow can alter the sense of volume. Susanna Justine Lee transforms environments with works that animate space and movement, engaging the viewer’s body. Matteo De Marco uses layered stratifications to allow figures and spaces to emerge as ephemeral apparitions, while Giacomo Lazzara observes the human within collective flows, tracing tensions and ephemeral relations rather than fixed forms. In Michele Schirinzi works matter, light and shadow operate as active agents, generating perceptual and spatial tensions.

Together, these artists present the body as process and emergence: a presence shaped by materials, context, perception, and the subtle interplay of light and shadow.

Curated by

Ludovica Morra, Founder of Artice, Art Advisor and Indipendent Curator, focuses her research on the relationship between the body, space, and material processes. Through a cross-disciplinary approach that spans sculpture and multimedia practices, her curatorial work investigates the body not as a subject, but as a field of forces shaped by light, matter, and movement. Her projects engage emerging artistic practices within both physical and digital contexts, exploring themes of presence, trace, and transformation.

I. Light Does Not Illuminate the Body: It Generates It

In this section, light is understood not as a neutral tool of visibility, but as a generative force. The body emerges through illumination, shaped by the encounter between matter and light. Sculptural and multimedia works reveal how light produces presence rather than representation.

Within this framework, Susanna Justine Lee’s practice explores light as an active element that constructs corporeality. Through subtle material interactions, her works present the body as an unstable presence—formed through luminous conditions that shift perception and spatial experience. In the digital exhibition space of Artice, light functions simultaneously as material, medium, and conceptual device, amplifying the generative dimension of her work.

II. Shadow as Extension: Shadow Is Part of the Body, Not Its Absence

This section considers shadow as an extension of the body—a trace that persists beyond physical form. Rather than indicating absence, shadow becomes a material presence through projection, imprint, and residual marks.

Within this framework, the works of Marco Merati, Giacomo Lazzara, Matteo De Marco, and Michele Schirinzi explore corporeality through echoes, reflections, and fragments. In their practices, presence unfolds through what remains rather than what is fully visible: shadows, imprints, and layered surfaces become sites where the body extends beyond its physical limits. In the digital exhibition space of Artice, shadow operates as image, data, and trace, expanding the body beyond its physical limits and reinforcing its condition as an extended, permeable entity.

III. The Body Is Not Stable: It Becomes

The final section focuses on the body as a condition of constant transformation. Movement, flow, and temporal processes define corporeality as something unstable and evolving.

Giacomo Lazzara's and Antonio Alberti's works articulate the body not as a fixed entity, but as an ongoing process shaped by time, space, and interaction. Through gestures, shifts, and rhythmic structures, their practice reveals corporeality as a dynamic configuration of forces—continuously altered by movement and material change. In the digital context of Artice, this instability is reflected in the fluid nature of the platform itself, where the body exists in a state of transition, suspended between physical matter and virtual experience.