Silvia Bigi
Camille
Edition Presentation
Opening on Tuesday September 23rd 2025, 7-9pm.
Press preview 5-7pm.
The exhibition will be open from Tuesday September 23, 7pm through October 3, 2025.
WIZARD LAB is pleased to present Camille, a new edition by Silvia Bigi from her homonymous ongoing series, through a short-term exhibition.
The title refers to the dystopian five generations of Camille, symbionts of monarch butterflies imagined by Donna Haraway on a planet on the verge of mass extinction. At the same time, Camille also recalls five women who actually lived and were killed between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Inquisition for their knowledge of herbs: Camilla da Nirano (1517), Camilla Boccolari (1553), Camilla Caccianemici (1569), Camilla di Bino (died in prison in 1590), and Camilla Bellencini Rangoni (1646).
WIZARD LAB presents an edition of one hundred exemplars of the olfactory object, an installation of textiles produced by Silvia Bigi in collaboration with Dino Zoli Textiles, Forlì—drawing inspiration from the herbs and plants used in the fragrance—and a gif video work.
Supported by Italian Council 12th (Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea), WIZARD LAB, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Mayday Rooms, Aptitudes for the Arts, Bólit, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Dino Zoli Textile.
Friday September 26, 6pm:
TALK:
“Camille, molecular map of memory” (in Italian), WIZARD LAB
Speakers: Silvia Bigi, Gabriela Galati, Marina Roncarolo
Moderated by: Francesca Filiasi
Supported by Aptitude for the Arts