Opacity As A Healing Space at Limbo Contemporary, Milan, IT
Curated by Zoë De Luca Legge
16 June  – 13 September, 2025
Szilvia Bolla, Lorenzo Conforti 

Opacity as a Healing Space, a double solo exhibition by Szilvia Bolla and Lorenzo Conforti, investigates hybrid forms of resilience in a visually oversaturated and psychologically charged world. The artists’ languages intertwine into slow-paced contemplation, resisting the ever-pressing demand for clear meaning whilst cherishing the ambiguous and the unresolved instead...Szilvia Bolla’s research explores the emotional and psychosomatic dimensions of contemporary life as well, yet focuses on the convergence between body, mind, and medical-pharmaceutical systems. Ingrained in a post-photographic approach, her works embody a plunging sensitivity to vulnerability and transformation. Bolla’s practice begins where images end. She translates visual thinking into material forms, transforming personal history into symbolic, sculptural narrative to address the invisible pressures of a world shaped by trauma, systemic depression, and biopolitical control. Her resin works trace the path of unregulated psychotropic drugs through the body: beginning with ingestion, ending with a fractured hip. An event drawn from her grandmother’s experience — in which a dizzy spell from medication caused her to fall while watering her garden, resulting in physical injury and psychological collapse. These sculptures merge the beauty of blossoms and the logic of prosthetics, reflecting how the body is reshaped by external pharmacological and political forces. An emotionally charged space where the nervous system meets systemic neglect.

Bolla reclaims decorative language as resistance, reverberating Conforti’s graffiti-informed background. His wall drawings softly wrap her pleated stomach sculpture, generating a space for contemplative antagonism. Though rooted in different mediums, the two artists engage with absence, transformation, and emotional depth. They both create works that defy fixed interpretation, embracing fragmentation and ungraspable, open-ended narratives. Though rooted in different mediums, the two artists confront absence, transformation, and emotional depth. They invite viewers to linger. Conforti paints the air around things to engage with existential voids, while Bolla shapes psychic wounds and memories into physical forms. In both practices, the medium becomes a place of care, metamorphosis, and eventually healing. A shifting zone echoes collective states of flux through poetic resistance.

Opacity As A Healing Space at Limbo Contemporary, Milan, IT
Curated by Zoë De Luca Legge
16 June  – 13 September, 2025
Szilvia Bolla, Lorenzo Conforti 

Opacity as a Healing Space, a double solo exhibition by Szilvia Bolla and Lorenzo Conforti, investigates hybrid forms of resilience in a visually oversaturated and psychologically charged world. The artists’ languages intertwine into slow-paced contemplation, resisting the ever-pressing demand for clear meaning whilst cherishing the ambiguous and the unresolved instead...Szilvia Bolla’s research explores the emotional and psychosomatic dimensions of contemporary life as well, yet focuses on the convergence between body, mind, and medical-pharmaceutical systems. Ingrained in a post-photographic approach, her works embody a plunging sensitivity to vulnerability and transformation. Bolla’s practice begins where images end. She translates visual thinking into material forms, transforming personal history into symbolic, sculptural narrative to address the invisible pressures of a world shaped by trauma, systemic depression, and biopolitical control. Her resin works trace the path of unregulated psychotropic drugs through the body: beginning with ingestion, ending with a fractured hip. An event drawn from her grandmother’s experience — in which a dizzy spell from medication caused her to fall while watering her garden, resulting in physical injury and psychological collapse. These sculptures merge the beauty of blossoms and the logic of prosthetics, reflecting how the body is reshaped by external pharmacological and political forces. An emotionally charged space where the nervous system meets systemic neglect.

Bolla reclaims decorative language as resistance, reverberating Conforti’s graffiti-informed background. His wall drawings softly wrap her pleated stomach sculpture, generating a space for contemplative antagonism. Though rooted in different mediums, the two artists engage with absence, transformation, and emotional depth. They both create works that defy fixed interpretation, embracing fragmentation and ungraspable, open-ended narratives. Though rooted in different mediums, the two artists confront absence, transformation, and emotional depth. They invite viewers to linger. Conforti paints the air around things to engage with existential voids, while Bolla shapes psychic wounds and memories into physical forms. In both practices, the medium becomes a place of care, metamorphosis, and eventually healing. A shifting zone echoes collective states of flux through poetic resistance.