04/09/2026
MEMORIA DI FORMA | MILANO
The exhibition ‘Memoria di forma’ is on view in Milan until September 26, curated by Anne-Laure Peressin (.peressin) and featuring Sila Candansayar (Sila Candansayar), Clédia Fourniau (Clédia Fourniau) and Nefeli Papadimouli (Nefeli Papadimouli).
‘Shape memory, when applied to materials, refers to their ability to return to an initial state after deformation. This property involves a form of material intelligence: something acts, moves, imprints itself within the matter, and then restores itself. To this technical dimension is articulated a more diffuse memory, linked to the trace: that of the gesture, the impact, and the aftereffect. Much like a mattress or a cushion, which record a body before releasing it, form results from a tension between the individual imprint (its presence in the negative) and this capacity to reenact what has passed through it.
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As for the works of Nefeli Papadimouli, shape memory is embodied in textile envelopes, or “skin-costumes,” that preserve the imprint of the body. Whether suspended or activated, these forms appear as available matrices, ready to be inhabited, moved, or reenacted. Each passage from one body to another actualizes this memory and displaces it. It is no longer merely an individual memory, but an expanded, collective bodily memory where form circulates, is transmitted, and is transformed’
Text by Anne-Laure Peressin
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Credit: Allison Borgo🪲