“Magazzino Italian Art presents Bruna Esposito: In Light of Facts. Curated by Nicola Lucchi, the exhibition is installed in the Robert Olnick Pavilion and will be open to the public from July 24, 2026, through February 1, 2027. In Light of Facts brings together works never before exhibited in the United States: a substantial selection from the series inconveniente (2014) and the installation Oltremare (sotto terra vulnerabili) (2006–2011). Considered together, the works transform the museum’s temporary exhibition pavilion into a dialectical environment, in which common materials open possibilities for poetic and critical reflection. The title plays with the idea of bringing facts to light in both a physical and metaphorical sense: light becomes a tool for making visible aspects of the reality around us that are often overlooked. By reworking objects that evoke migration and trade across the Mediterranean Sea and other spaces of global transit, Esposito engages with themes of movement, labor, vulnerability, identity, and the forms of adaptation that characterize contemporary life.” — Magazzino Italian Art

Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, Co-Founders of Magazzino Italian Art, state: “Our friendship with Bruna Esposito is a longstanding one. It was born thanks to Dora and Mario Pieroni, and it flourished through the experience of the Olnick Spanu Art Program. Years later, it was a great pleasure for us to host Altri Venti – Ostro as part of Magazzino’s activities, and we are now delighted to present our public with an exhibition that fully reflects the museum’s mission: to promote greater knowledge of Italian artists whose work engages with the questions of our time without relinquishing the power of imagination.”

Nicola Lucchi, Director of Magazzino, adds: “In Light of Facts is an exhibition that insists on the relationship between documentation and evocation. Bruna Esposito’s works begin from circumstances and materials that belong to our present, but through the artist’s intervention these elements come to reveal the humanity—and therefore the poetry—that lies within the hardness of facts and things.”

Title image: Bruna Esposito: In Light of Facts, exhibition installation. Photograph by Marco Anelli and Tommaso Sacconi. Courtesy of Magazzino Italian Art.