2025.01.25—2025.03.29
Harlequin
Musa paradisiaca
Antonia Gaeta (curator)

“An intense and long experiment in mimicry. It is a prolific vertigo, neither linear nor fluid, infinitely repeatable, an oxymoronic figure that reveals by concealing lost objects and absent people.”
  
Antonia Gaeta
  

“Harlequin”, a solo exhibition by Musa paradisiaca, curated by Antonia Gaeta, celebrates the figure of the banal hero—tragicomic, vulnerable, and ingenious. Like the Harlequin, who balances between drama and survival, the exhibition weaves an environment that acknowledges fragility as strength and collaboration as a method. Through first-person videos, narratives featuring amateur actors, and interactions with the audience, each piece emerges from a network of collaborations while remaining deeply personal. Intimate gestures of painting and drawing coexist with works that expand the space of reality, always in tension between the ephemeral and the permanent.
  
With the support of Balaclava Noir

POV (mare), 2024. Video, 480 x 320 px, color, no sound, loop. dur. 3'21'', screen w/ Raspberry Pi, Ed. 3 + 2 PA 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Hunting Scene, 2013. 16mm film transferred to PAL, 4:3, color, sound, 7'50''. Stripped CRT monitor on metal cart, wireless headphones 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa pradisiaca, Hands, 2021. Bronze. 28 x 22 x 11 cm 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025 
Harlequin . Musa paradisiaca, Exhibition view, 2025