MARGINALIA: WeGil - ROMA
Through the faces and stories of women, art becomes a margin where memory and identity.Attraverso i volti e le storie delle donne, l’arte diventa margine in cui riscrivere memoria, identità.
Marginalia, a project by Roman artist Fabio Imperiale, will be on view in Rome at WeGil from 5 to 30 November 2025, after its first stop at the Luciana Matalon Foundation in Milan. Curated by Sandra Sanson, with critical texts by Vera Agosti and Pasquale Lettieri, the exhibition is promoted by Cris Contini Contemporary with the patronage of the Regione Lazio.
The show presents female portraits as part of an unprecedented fresco of contemporary Italy, touching on nature, family, work, social engagement, and key themes such as self-determination, gender equality, and women’s empowerment.
Created with coffee, ink, and bitumen on collages of old postcards, each portrait emerges from the artist’s time spent with his sitters and is accompanied by entries from his travel diary. The female body, central to Imperiale’s research, is rendered through an intimate yet powerful figuration that encourages reflection on society, art, and human connection.
The title Marginalia refers to the annotations made in the margins of manuscripts before the invention of printing — a metaphor for the artist’s delicate approach to people’s lives, recording impressions and emotions in the margins to compose his own “history of histories.”
