This form of resistance allows a new language to develop.
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Shelly wound
24.09 - 21.10.2025
performance by Linda Lach
curated by Maddalena Iodice
performed by Sofia Naglieri
Hembryo Rome
“It drips, it has been dripping for hours, it has been dripping forever.
Each drop feels like saliva, speaking the memories severed by the system.”
Link to performance: https://www.hyperobjects-official.com/w/projects/
Each drop feels like saliva, speaking the memories severed by the system.”
Link to performance: https://www.hyperobjects-official.com/w/projects/
Through Shelly Wound, Linda Lach evokes a space of tenderness, slowness, and remembrance. In an enclosed environment, time becomes a milky outflow, a drop marking the rhythm of thought. Reclaimed materials—translucent and malleable like resin, latex, wax, and paper—form the grammar through which the artist creates a series of layered presences, sculptures that surface like a forgotten past, revealing within the fabric of their surfaces material fragments and ephemeral fossils, in what seems like an attempt to give body to memories otherwise severed. Shelly Wound presents itself as an archival space that gathers everything forgotten, removed, distorted, remembered, recalled, and translated; and it reasserts the value of its existence in the essential gesture of performer Sofia Naglieri, a connective and pulsating organism, an agent of remembrance. Through the slow unfolding of presence and memory, Shelly Wound affirms the importance of the intimate archive within historical time and collective memory—a poetic yet incisive act of resistance against the standardized capitalist historicization of reality.