Davide La Montagna
I’m Half Sick of Shadows
14.11.2025–30.01.2026
curated by Ginevra Ludovici
// Exhibition text // Press release //
With I’m Half Sick of Shadows, Davide La Montagna’s solo exhibition, we inaugurate 10 documents, a platform for artistic, curatorial, and theoretical research articulated through a series of public research programs, each dedicated to a different object of study. The first program takes shape around the theme of affection.
10 documents explores affection as a relational force — something that moves bodies, shapes communities, and redefines critical thought. Through exhibitions, gatherings, conversations, and sonic and performative gestures, the platform investigates how relations, bonds, and feelings of proximity can become aesthetic, political, and social material.
In the exhibition, La Montagna evokes a domestic dimension of light and shadow, love and violence. Lamps that switch on and off rhythmically, collages destined for slow self-destruction, and a video composed of cinematic fragments examine the ways in which love is represented, consumed, and internalized in contemporary culture.
The exhibition is accompanied by the presentation of the poetry book What Sound a Rose Makes, published by 10 documents and performed by the artist with a sonic contribution by Flavio Michele.
Each gathering within the public research programs becomes part of a living archive — a collective lexicon built through presence, reiteration, and listening.
Davide La Montagna (Rivoli, 1992) is an artist living and working in Turin. His research explores love as an ambivalent and transformative force, examining the tensions between opposites that inhabit the space of relation and desire. Using everyday objects and poetic language, his work unfolds as a process of inquiry and evocation, bringing to light submerged or forgotten narratives often tied to dynamics of violence and power.
A graduate of the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem (2025), he has held solo exhibitions at Archivio Gribaudo and Almanac (Turin). Recent group exhibitions include Efemeridi. 2013–2025 (Almanac, Turin), The Good Company (IUNO, Rome), and Thinking Songs of Things (Mario Mauroner Contemporary, Vienna). In 2023 he co-founded, together with Deborah Martino, the Ethereal Society of Poetry (ESP), a platform dedicated to sharing and disseminating poetry through readings, conversations, and participatory gatherings.
