Anatomia di una tensione
Veronica Sponilli
Martina Taddeucci
curated by Nicoletta Biglietti and Lorenzo Rubini
26.04.26 - 24.05.26
ASP Beata Lucia Church, Narni (TR)
Supported by Ente Corsa all’Anello and ARPA Umbria
The exhibition Anatomia di una tensione (Anatomy of a Tension) brings together the research of Veronica Sponilli and Martina Taddeucci within the space of the Church of Beata Lucia, a place deeply rooted in the history of this Umbrian area in which body, time, and spirituality intertwine.
The church's architecture features works that explore tension as a physical and symbolic condition, as a force acting on matter, and as a trace that time leaves on bodies and things.
In Veronica Sponilli's work, tension manifests itself as material resistance. Precarious fibers, weights, and structures make an unstable equilibrium visible, in which the force of gravity becomes a measure of limit and duration. Alongside, Martina Taddeucci's practice constructs images and surfaces through re-used fabrics, stitching, and layering, transforming the pictorial gesture into a process of sedimentation of memory. Her works are the representations of collective bodies, fragile archives in which time is deposited and continues to operate.
Press release IT
Press release EN
Artists
Veronica Sponilli
(b. 1998, Roma - Italy)
She lives and works in Rome. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome then a Master of Arts in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia.
Her research investigates sculpture as a field of energy and it’s deeply fond to the relationship between materials, therefore matter becomes a place of resistance, memory, and transformation. Among her recent exhibitions La Sottile Linea d’Umbria, Perugia (2024).
Martina Taddeucci
(b. 2001, Montevarchi - Italy)
She lives and works between Urbino and Montevarchi. Graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, her research on fabrics stems from a family tradition, a typically women’s craft passed down for generations. Tissues become fragments of distant lives, witnesses to the same repeated history.
Among her recent exhibitions, Figure contemporanee at Palazzo Ducale, Urbino (2025) and Surprize 7 at Pescheria Visual Arts Centre, Pesaro (2025); Chiamata alle arti 2021-2024 at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York (2024). In 2026 she’s been selected for the Italian Emerging Futures project promoted by BCC.
Artworks