Porous Kinship

Artopia presents Porous Kinship, a group exhibition curated by Maddalena Iodice, bringing together the artists Kesewa Aboah, Alberte Agerskov, Aléa Work, Dimitra Charamandas and Diana Policarpo in a reflection on the interrelations between body and environment. Through painting, sculpture, and video, the project invites viewers to observe the world through a gaze capable of recognizing resonances between the human and the more-than-human, questioning the boundaries between organic and inert matter.

The exhibition activates an animistic and relational sensibility, in which the body is configured as a porous surface, traversed by forces, traces, and transformations. In Kesewa Aboah’s metal engravings, the contact between body and surface generates a sensitive map of imprints and pressures; in Alberte Agerskov’s works, the relationship between water and stone translates into a process of mutual transformation that makes the time of encounter visible.

Aléa Work’s practice introduces an interspecies dimension, in which mycelium becomes co-author of the works, modifying and redefining matter. In Dimitra Charamandas’ paintings, landscapes and bodies merge into emotional topographies that reflect on the tensions between the vulnerability of living beings and environmental exploitation. With the video When the Sea Swallows, Diana Policarpo adopts an eco-centric perspective, entrusting the narrative to an island that tells its own story through myth, memory, and transformation.

Developed in dialogue with the gallery space, Porous Kinship takes shape as a sensitive environment in which artworks and architecture work together to redefine the relationship between perception, matter, and the natural world.