RESILIENCE

23.05.2025

Resilientia is a collective contemporary art exhibition hosted by M.A.D.S. Art Gallery that explores the concept of resilience not merely as the ability to endure, but as a creative and transformative act. Resilience is not just survival—it is metamorphosis. It is the silent strength that allows us to move through fracture, to dwell in pain without being destroyed by it, and to be reborn from it, carrying with us the traces, the scars, the memories.

In a time marked by environmental crises, social conflicts, and both personal and collective uncertainties, resilience becomes a key to understanding the present and a tool for imagining possible futures. This exhibition invites the audience to embark on an emotional and symbolic journey through the many forms that resilience can take: the endurance of the body, the adaptability of matter, the mind’s capacity to mend broken bonds.

Through a diverse body of works—ranging from painting to sculpture, from immersive installations to video art, encompassing photography, sound, and performance—the exhibition gives voice to artists who have chosen to confront fragility and explore it as a generative space. Some works rise from the ashes of failure, from the intimate experience of loss, or from traumatic events; others are rooted in the resilience of territories, communities, and shifting identities. Resilientia does not merely represent resilience: it evokes it, enacts it, transforms it into a sensory experience.

Ultimately, Resilientia is a collective experience that celebrates not invulnerability, but the courage to continue existing even when everything around us seems to collapse. It is a declaration of love for life in its most authentic form: fragile, imperfect, yet extraordinarily vital.

Concept by Matilde Della Pina Senior Art Curator