Harlequin

“An intense and long experiment in mimicry. It is a prolific vertigo, neither linear nor fluid, infinitely repeatable, an oxymoronic figure that reveals by concealing lost objects and absent people.”

Antonia Gaeta

“Harlequin”, a solo exhibition by Musa paradisiaca, curated by Antonia Gaeta, celebrates the figure of the banal hero—tragicomic, vulnerable, and ingenious. Like the Harlequin, who balances between drama and survival, the exhibition weaves an environment that acknowledges fragility as strength and collaboration as a method. Through first-person videos, narratives featuring amateur actors, and interactions with the audience, each piece emerges from a network of collaborations while remaining deeply personal. Intimate gestures of painting and drawing coexist with works that expand the space of reality, always in tension between the ephemeral and the permanent.

With the support of Balaclava Noir