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Bittersweet Periferia

Past exhibition
8 June - 8 July 2023 Gallery
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Bittersweet Periferia by Aisha Christison and Amedeo Polazzo Installation view
Bittersweet Periferia by Aisha Christison and Amedeo Polazzo Installation view

Each work is framed in an intermediate, disorienting, liminal condition.

 

In Bittersweet Periferia, Aisha Christison and Amedeo Polazzo explore transitional spaces and blurred emotional landscapes through a shared painterly approach marked by underpainting, glazing, and a deliberately naïve visual language. Their paintings evoke the poetic dissonance of the peripheral—spaces that feel both familiar and uncertain.

 

Christison’s works lean toward the domestic and dreamlike, drawing on childlike motifs and surreal interiors. Polazzo counters with canvases and wall drawings where ancient and industrial elements coexist in ambiguous terrains, extending the narrative beyond traditional frames into the gallery’s own architecture.

 

Together, the artists construct a visual dialogue suspended between nostalgia and estrangement, where metaphysical longing meets amateurish intimacy. The result is a tender, bittersweet reflection on the spaces we inhabit—both literal and psychological—and how they shape memory, identity, and perception.

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