Ellipse and Ellipsis is a multimedia environment emerging through installation, sound and design with the ellipse and the ellipsis as guiding tropes. Both words stem from the Greek noun elleipsis, meaning "falling short" or "defect," and, while shaping astronomical and linguistic contexts, can also serve as metaphors for how we relate to otherness—whether time, a living being, or a fantastical idea.

The works by Anthea Hamilton, Gabriella Hirst, Jasper Marsalis, Jota Mombaça, Sandra Mujinga, Objects of Common Interest, and the Acousmonium ODAE by Neuf Voix form the tonicas of a scenography–where repetition, metamorphosis and possibility intertwine– to be deciphered through co-habitation. Elements that typically underpin the structure and organization of a space such as a wall, plants, a chair, a soundtrack, come forth activated and ambiguous.

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Mother Tongue by Bethan Laura Wood is a kaleidoscopic, site-specific exhibition and programme of curated talks deploying in the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in London. Developed with curator Libby Sellers and realized with curator Vittoria de Franchis, Mother Tongue is part of Wood’s Traveling Bluestocking Salon — a series of salons activating site-specific installations inspired by the Bluestockings Society, one of the first English feminist groups who in the mid 18th century advocated for the arts, philanthropy and learning through their salons gatherings. In homage, Bethan’s Salons are sites for sharing, gathering and discussion in domestic (and domestic-inspired) settings.

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Look with alien eyes our experience of being soil beings.

What is intrinsically from Earth?

Look at what constitutes our planetary from the outside in order to reconstitute our humanity in

times of deep crisis.

Deconstruct and expand our connection to the living. Expand our vocabulary of the invisible.

Looking forward through terrestrial intelligence. Terrestrial beings exist closer to the meaning.

Ritual objects invoke the world behind words. Recognize what constitutes our axis from the planet

that we can invoke through these objects.

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The Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation is proud to present Portals, the debut exhibition by Paola Bay. The project stems from the long-term friendship between Nicoletta Fiorucci and the artist, who over the years shared various practices and ceremonies that helped build their spiritual journey.

Portals, brings Paola’s diverse series of paintings together to reveal their energetic potential. With the ongoing environmental damage and the advancement of AI, whose consequences are crucially impactful but still hard to foresee, creating a space where to sense that there is no distinction between humanity and the environment we inhabit is even more timely. Paola’s paintings act as a kind of technology: her richly coloured visual journeys open doorways to self-discovery, inviting us to be present, transcend the boundaries of the physical, and connect deeply with the essence of both ourselves and nature.

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Continuing the conversations initiated in Recent Acquisitions and Eternal Loves - Part I, the exhibition’s second chapter maintains the dialogue between works acquired over the past three years and the collection's long-standing artistic influences. Yet, this new chapter delves deeper into the notions of space and of inhabiting by presenting art and design perspectives that offer broader interpretations of living spaces, moving from the physical and the sensorial to the personal and the cosmic.

Following a time of hyper-exposure to interior environments, combined with a longing for more sustainable ways of living, artists, like many others, build spaces to rest, observe, dream, heal, meditate, and experiment.

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Taking its title from a sculpture by Himali Singh Soin, Too Much and Not Enough brings a selection of works from the Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection in dialogue with the artist’s work.

Envisioned by Singh Soin within the London spaces of the Foundation – which acts as a temporary custodian for the artist’s sculpture – this collaborative display reflects on ideas of wholeness, voids, emptiness and fullness, across various scales, from the molecular to the cosmic.

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Devised in conversation with the Collection’s Curator, Giulia Civardi, this intimate presentation unveils over 90 works by 59 international artists that radically shaped the Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection and the vision of its founder, as well as broader perceptions within the arts. With a focus on emerging practices and works acquired over the past three years, the exhibition brings experimental artistic approaches in conversation with longstanding historical influences. Traditionally-recognised media such as painting, sculpture, and drawing appear alongside photography, textile, marquetry, collage, video, ceramic, mobile and digital technologies such as a responsive sound sculpture and a ‘sentient artwork’ that changes and adapts to its surroundings.

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Nicoletta Fiorucci is pleased to present Martino & Friends. No Ordinary Home, the result of a collective project bringing together a group of designers and friends: Tiago Almeida, Attua Aparicio, Jochem Faudet, Lars Frideen, Jon Harrison, Max Frommeld, Martino Gamper, Gemma Holt, Jochen Holz, Max Lamb, Will Shannon, Harry Thaler, Oscar Lessing and Bethan Laura Wood.

Initiated by Martino Gamper, the exhibition celebrates the designers' continuing collaboration and their history of collective workshop-led exhibitions and projects. It is also a homage to the friendship between Martino and Nicoletta.

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