20/10/2025
One of my last shooting
Reposted • Adelaide Cioni and Shafei Xia’s works at ‘Fantastica’, the 18th edition of the Art Quadriennale in Rome ().
Adelaide Cioni’s () practice moves at the intersection of textile, painting, and performance. The constant elements at the core of her practice are drawing, an absence of narration and a feminist viewpoint. Over the past year, she has been connecting her work to music and dance, in a multidisciplinary, collaborative
approach.
Shafei Xia’s () works are irreverent, amusing, impertinent, erotic, but extremely refined. Her work’s main theme is love, experienced as desire, jealousy, and violence, represented explicitly or symbolically. The artist often represents herself as a tiger, a symbol of power and instinctive force, which in Chinese alchemy indicates the active principle, energy as opposed to the passive principle. An ironic swapping of roles between men and women, and between human beings and animals.
For ‘Fantastica’, the artists present newly commissioned works conceived specifically for the exhibition, in dialogue with the curatorial themes and in continuity with their individual practices.
📍Palazzo Esposizioni
📆 11 October 2025 - 18 January 2026
📸 Sebastiano Luciano
Courtesy the artists and P420, Bologna
