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Toast Project Space
V. Elsa Morante, 1, 50144 Firenze FI, Italy
El fondo del aire
Manuela García with an intervention by Giuseppe De Mattia
Curated by Vasco Forconi and Marco Valtierra
April 23 – June 22, 2026
The exhibition opens as a collective conversation around the real and its frictions with imagination, gradually becoming a reflection on processes of cultural translation and the diverse imaginaries of the South between the Mediterranean and Latin America.
Within and around Toast's space, two contrasting movements unfold: one of ascent—the castle in the air suggested by Manuela García—and another of grounding, proposed in counterpoint by Giuseppe De Mattia.
Manuela García’s practice begins from a disquieting premise: what we recognize as space is in fact constituted through a series of sedimented perceptual habits. Space appears here as a field in constant friction, traversed by relationships among bodies, materials, and modes of perception that never fully settle into fixed forms.…
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Toast Project Space
V. Elsa Morante, 1, 50144 Firenze FI, Italy
El fondo del aire
Manuela García with an intervention by Giuseppe De Mattia
Curated by Vasco Forconi and Marco Valtierra
April 23 – June 22, 2026
The exhibition opens as a collective conversation around the real and its frictions with imagination, gradually becoming a reflection on processes of cultural translation and the diverse imaginaries of the South between the Mediterranean and Latin America.
Within and around Toast's space, two contrasting movements unfold: one of ascent—the castle in the air suggested by Manuela García—and another of grounding, proposed in counterpoint by Giuseppe De Mattia.
Manuela García’s practice begins from a disquieting premise: what we recognize as space is in fact constituted through a series of sedimented perceptual habits. Space appears here as a field in constant friction, traversed by relationships among bodies, materials, and modes of perception that never fully settle into fixed forms.…
