Exhibition · Anni Wu Gallery · Milano
To enter the exhibition is to be caressed, enveloped, and permeated by a subterranean force. To enter the exhibition is to cross a threshold where every boundary and every identity is temporarily suspended. This is a haunted exhibition, a porous environment. A zone of instability in which the image never presents itself as a fully formed presence; instead, it emerges slowly through dispersion, accumulations, and sudden condensations. When I first saw the work of Ludovica Anversa and Manuel Cornelius, although these encounters took place at different moments, both intimate and historically situated, a reflection emerged that resonates across both practices: an awareness of life’s fundamentally chimeric nature. A pre- and posthuman impulse, an ancestral, telluric, and unsettling tension. A metamorphic drive through which the force that traverses and transforms us is not an act of conscious will but rather an ancient force, older than the body it shapes, operating in complete autonomy. Amphibious in character, this force refuses singularity, inhabiting and embracing multiple forms simultaneously. After all, we are the result of a chain of relational processes that includes every living being: we inhabit the world in continuity with the forms that preceded us. We are the outcome of countless relationships with the environments we inhabit, part of a common body from which all species emerge, ontologically inseparable. Every organism can be understood as the temporary outcome of an infinite series of metamorphoses; transformation is no longer an exceptional event occurring within a pre-existing condition, but the very structure of life itself. We are therefore inclined toward becoming other, to borrow a Deleuzian notion. Variations of a single life moving across bodies, species, and generations, we are temporary forms through which the same life continues to mutate. ARTISTS ABOUT NEWS SIPHONOPHORES 11.06 - 25.07.2026 Ludovica Anversa Manuel Cornelius Text by Edoardo…