Exhibition Opening Night. Ex Contactu. Relics of Pain, Love, and Pleasure"

Name: Exhibition Opening Night. Ex Contactu. Relics of Pain, Love, and Pleasure"
Start: 2025-09-10T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-10T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Corso Italia 146, 56125 Pisa, Italy

Schedule

Wed Sep 10 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Corso Italia 146, 56125 Pisa, Italy | Pisa, TO

What makes the body sacred?
Not distance. Not perfection. But contact.
Ex Contactu is the new exhibition by Maria Gvardeitseva, where salt, wax, water, and video become fragile relics of lived emotions - love, pain, pleasure, joy, birth, betrayal, wound, and orgasm.
The title ex contactu (Latin: “from contact”) recalls Catholic relics once made holy by touch. Here, holiness comes not from canonisation, but from raw experience: wounds, intimacy, survival.
- Sculptures in sign language translate emotional words into silent grids.
- Wax votives, faceless yet familiar, echo Mediterranean devotional traditions.
- A long braid becomes a relic of continuity, care, and maternal love.
This is not a show about saints or religion. It is about us - our bodies as living relics of transformation.
Join us at AORTA Gallery and experience how emotions leave traces, melt, and return to the body.
Curated by Nadzeya Naurotskaya
Opening Night: September 10, 2025, 18:00-20:00
Entrance free
Aorta Social Art Gallery
Corso Italia 146, Pisa, Italy