Soft Armors: ‘MY FAKE NAILS MY REAL CLAWS’ and the Glamour of the Lethal Object

Thirteen artists turn the accessory into a soft armor: trophy and diary, ornament and weapon, the closet rewritten as a reliquary of becoming, where the next self waits sharpened.

Echoes That Refuse to Fade by Yesakova, Struger & Palyvoda

Three artists assemble the anatomical theatre as a living structure: dissection tables, ceramic relics, and mirror-shards mapping the body as site where power inscribes itself and refuses to dissolve.

Spectral Armour: Floryan Varennes at Xxijra Hii

Floryan Varennes constructs an artificial medical garden at Xxijra Hii — PVC, glass, and steel orthoses suspending the body between protection and confinement, survival and transformation.

The Fire and Its Ghosts: Ghirardelli and Luzi

Nicola Ghirardelli and Andrea Luzi stage fire as co-creative agent — not destruction but transformation, where sculpture becomes relic and painting becomes liturgy.