Beautiful World, Where Are You
Alice Visentin
May 17 - June 21, 2025
Opening Reception with the Artist: Saturday, May 17 | 4-6 pm
Second Thursday Reception: Thursday, June 12 | 6-9 pm
Open Saturdays from 12-5pm or by appointment
Peep is proud to present Beautiful World, Where Are You, a solo exhibition by Alice Visentin. The exhibition features an installation of hand-painted posters, drawings, sculptures, and a video sound piece.
Immersed in the power of speculative fiction, Visentin constructs a landscape where reality and imagination coexist. The exhibition, designed in collaboration with Magda Antoniazzi, takes its title from the novel by Sally Rooney. It is a search, both intimate and universal, for traces of beauty in a world that often feels fractured and in flux.
At the heart of the exhibition is a yellow DIY wig sculpture incorporating a vintage TV that plays a video and a new song written by Alice Visentin, produced by Mattia "Splendore" Barro, and performed by Natacha Oberson. In the artist's imagination, the song is written by the fictional band “Il segreto dei dolci.” The hand-painted posters with lyrics and credits represent the merchandising of an imagined “nostalgic pop” hit.
A small room divided by a paper curtain serves as an antechamber for a peephole. In a play of references, the props from the music videos (paper legs, a candle, and an ice cream cone) reappear live in a reinterpretation of Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés (permanently on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art).
The artist reimagines the female figure portrayed by Duchamp, in a playful manner. She is reminiscent of a pop-style Artemide Efesia made with a paper and plasticine cut-out with multiple protruding breasts.
Through her multidisciplinary approach, Visentin offers a vision of a world not lost but reimagined—one that asks: where are you, and how can we find one another again?
“What interests me most in life and in my work is the creation of new languages, in order to build new and possible paths for the future. To achieve this, I constantly explore new techniques and I am not afraid to use nonsense, free associations between distant ideas and images, collaborative work, and the layering of different temporalities. For example, I enjoy using ancient techniques to express new ideas—and vice versa.” - Alice Visentin
Alice Visentin was born in 1993 in Castellamonte, Italy. After graduating from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin in 2018, she co-founded and curated a self-training school “for the practice of thought and action” called Bagni D’Aria. Among her solo exhibitions: Amanti Fabula in 2024 at Sundy and Almanac in London; and Everyday Mystery at Gió Marconi Gallery in Milan. In 2023, she received the Fellows Project Fund from the American Academy in Rome, which led to her solo exhibition The Morning Tide of Moods at Lateral Roma. Visentin was awarded a Visual Arts fellowship for the year 2023 at the American Academy in Rome. In 2024, she was selected for a fellowship at Gasworks in London, supported by the Fondazione Memmo. Additionally, she won a scholarship from the 13th edition of the Italian Council, a competition organized by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) – a body of the Italian Ministry of Culture. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Abana, Naples.