The project Fragile / Fragments arises from the desire to explore fragility not as a sign of weakness, but as a condition which, when it manifests, enables us to delve into human existence in one of its most sensitive and revealing dimensions, at once individual and collective, historical and material. This notion resonates with particular force in a context such as Lebanon, where fragility is not a metaphor but a tangible, lived experience, inscribed upon bodies, landscapes, institutions, and memory itself.
In this light, fragility becomes the subject of aesthetic and critical inquiry: a sensitive matter to be translated into forms, images, gestures, and sounds. It is both an inner tension that runs through biographies and structures, and an echo of historical fractures and systemic vulnerabilities.
Fragile / Fragments thus unfolds as a plural reflection traversing contemporary art, archaeology, ecology, memory, and language, constructing a space in which fragility is no longer perceived as a flaw to conceal or a wound to mend, but as a point of ignition: a condition from which visions, questions, new forms of meaning, and possibilities for transformation may emerge.
Featuring two Italian artists in dialogue with six Lebanese artists, and with the presence of archaeological artefacts, sounds, and site-specific installations, the exhibition takes shape as a fragmented cartography of the fragile, a space where visitors can listen, touch, understand, and cross through fragility, not as a deficiency, but as a critical resource.
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Ilaria Sagaria
Born in 1989 in Salerno, Ilaria Sagaria lives and works in Milan. A graduate in painting and photography from the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, she develops a visual language that blends formal rigour and introspection, intertwining photography and painting in a symbolic imagery dominated by the female body. Her images explore the relationship between the sacred and the profane, light and darkness, memory and metamorphosis.
Among her main projects are Crisalidi — a reflection on identity transformation and the fragility of the body — and Piena di grazia (2025), dedicated to the feminine as a space of spiritual and symbolic tension.
She has exhibited in Italian and international galleries and institutions, including the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, where a self-portrait of hers has entered the permanent collection. Winner of numerous awards, including Portfolio Italia (2021) and New Talent Prize (2023), she has taken part in festivals such as Photolux and Verzasca Foto.
Serena Radicioli
Born in Latina in 1997, Serena Radicioli belongs to the new generation of Italian photography. After studying at Officine Fotografiche in Rome, she attended the Photography and Audiovisual course at RUFA. Her research focuses on memory, absence, and the reconstruction of the self through family archives and found images.
With the project Non sei più tornato, dedicated to the disappearance of her father, she won the Musa Prize for Women Photographers (2023) and took part in Giovane Fotografia Italiana #12 as part of Fotografia Europea 2025.
In her poetics, even the errors and imperfections of the photographic medium become narrative tools, capable of transforming fragility into presence and memory into vision.