Characters in Search of a Voice

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WHAT’S ON

Jun 2026 - Jan 2027
artist-in-residence at Centro Pecci and Casa Masaccio for SUPERTOSCANA project

21.01.27 - group show at Centro Pecci

Projects and exhibitions

WEAVINGS

I CARRY THE FOREST INSIDE
batik and eco print on silk

CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A VOICE
ceramic sound sculptures

MUTAFORMA
Papier-mâché sculptures

ERBARI
batik on silk

FOREST REVERIE
works on paper

CURSES, SPELLS AND OTHER MAGICS
duo show with Elisa Bertaglia (2024)

NOTES FROM ANOTHER WORLD
solo show (2023)

SITE SPECIFIC WORKS

PAPER SCULPTURES

Limited Editions

Inner Maps, 2025
Textile series
Available here

Rivedere la foresta, 2024
Limited Edition Print

Surreal Landscapes, 2023
Limited Edition of scarves

BEATRICE SPADEA
b.1995
Italy

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Beatrice Spadea’s practice explores the intersections of imagination, perception, and memory, investigating how these dimensions shape our experience of the world. Her work moves through spaces where dream, fantasy, and poetry emerge, opening reflective and alternative perspectives.

Her earlier works engaged with shared natural and cosmic symbols, which formed the starting point of her research. Over time, her focus has shifted toward a sensory crisis and a growing estrangement from the natural world, and how this disconnection shapes inner life and perception. The forest often appears as a central presence, understood as both a physical and psychic space of renewal, coexistence, and resonance.

At the core of her current practice are textile works developed through batik-dyed silks and hand-assembled pieces on a loom. Through slow, process-based techniques, she explores themes of identity, transformation, and voice, allowing forms to frag- ment, shift, and reorganize. Ceramic sculptures and sound operate in dialogue with the textile works, extending the investigation of resonance and presence. Through these materials, she seeks to awaken perception and build an imaginary ecosystem where matter and sound reconnect us with the living world.

Solo

(2024)The Portal of Timeless Dreams, temporary public installation, Via Borgonuovo 1, Milan

(2023) Notes From Another World, solo show, Galleria Martina Corbetta, Giussano, MB

(2021) One Step Closer to the Sky, solo show JC Gallery Mayfair, London - England

Selected group exhibitions

(2026) Move your hands, Galleria Civica Ezio Mariani, Seregno MB
(2025) Seamspells, Forci Art Foundation, Tenuta di Forci, Lucca, LU
(2025) Mondi Sottili, Studio DeTales, Milano, MI
(2024) Curses, Spells and Other Magics, di Elisa Bertaglia e Beatrice Spadea Galleria Marti- na Corbetta, Giussano, MB
(2022) Roots Of Day, group show, JC Gallery Mayfair , London - England
(2022) C.R.A.C. Crepe, Rotture, Alterazioni e Cicatrici, group show Artiglieria, Contemporary Art Center, Torino, TO

Awards

(2023) ArtPrize 2023, group show, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US
(2022) Combat Prize 13° Edition, group show, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno
(2021) Arte Laguna Prize 15° Edition, group show Arsenale, Venezia
(2020) Winner of Nice&Fair Contemporary Visions Paratissima, Torino

Residencies

upcoming: (Jun 2026-Jan 2027) artist-in-residence SUPERTOSCANA at Centro Pecci (Prato) and Casa Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno)

(2025) Forci Art Foundation, Textile Art residency, Tenuta di Forci, Lucca

Education

(2015-2018) Bachelor’s Degree in Painting, Three-Year Program – Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera

Last Updated 04/02/2026

Characters in Search of a Voice, 2025
natural stoneware, 25x15x15 cm

This group of works emerged naturally, as a continuation of my exploration of identity and multiplicity, this time through sound as a metaphor for voice. The work Characters in Search of a Voice (2025) embodies this idea.

Sound, to me, is another way of thinking about form, fluid, relational, impossible to contain.
Each ceramic piece in this series functions like a bell: it holds within it a potential vibration, a latent voice. Equipped with a clapper, every sculpture produces a different resonance depending on its movement, material density, and shape. When several of them are activated together, their tones merge into a fragile polyphony, a chorus of distinct yet interconnected voices.

These are characters searching for their own voice, but in doing so, they create a collective one. The work suggests that identity may not lie in choosing a single tone, but in hosting all voices at once, allowing them to coexist, overlap, and transform one another.

This reflection has opened the path for a broader research, one that expands the dialogue between sound, form, and the porous boundaries of identity.

View from the group show Seamspells
Tenuta di Forci, Lucca, IT