Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a special online exhibition featuring ninna nanna per un aquilone — lullaby for a kite, a limited-edition work by Italian-British multimedia artist, poet, and performance-maker Matilde CERRUTI QUARA.

Produced exclusively for the gallery’s immersive poetry event during Frieze Week 2024, this edition is available for one week only at £75.

Additional editions and unique works by the artist are also available for purchase from this Viewing Room for a limited time. Explore below!

"I find The Mirror, in its archetypal notion, a paradox per se; something trusted to offer an inescapably truthful perspective, and yet a medium which constantly shifts the subject of its reflections according to many as variable factors, not least what we want to see in it. (...)

I’m also obsessed with the liquid quality of mirroring surfaces. They remind me of WATER, which is my favourite element and a great source of inspiration. Ever fluid and flowing, metamorphic, transparent yet mysterious, strong, wise with its capacity of retaining memories. Ephemeral and yet eternal. I often fantasise what it would be like to be able to write on water. 

Mirror Dibond aka composite aluminium well embeds that, and it has many other qualities which I’m very interested in, such as its malleability, lightness, eternal durability juxtaposed to its ephemeral looks, unbreakability, all of which makes me think of magic, the world of dreams, our fantasies and Moon dust. "

Excerpt from an interview with Matilde Cerruti Quara by Ché Zara Blomfield, curator at Shoreditch Arts Club, on the occasion of the artist's recent commission. Link to the full interview is here.