Istituto Svizzero presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Italy by Ilaria Vinci (Brindisi, 1991; lives in Zurich). Vinci’s work, which encompasses sculpture, installation, and drawing, uses the fantastical as a lens through which to engage with reality. Drawing on the legacy of fairy tales and fables, as well as contemporary fantasy and science fiction, her practice taps into the storytelling power inherent in the iconographies and cultural motifs that populate the collective imagination. Through these elements, Vinci articulates fictional universes that become speculative tools for negotiating the construction of the real.

Goodnight Morning at Istituto Svizzero in Milan presents a series of new sculptures that evoke the liminal passage from wakefulness into sleep, and back. The works seem to appropriate the oniric process by which the day’s information and traumatic events are transformed into objects, places, and scenarios that are familiar yet distorted by a language…