Almanac Inn presents The Brink, the first solo exhibition in Turin by Zurich-based Italian artist Virginia Ariu.

Through photography and collage, this new body of work explores the liminal spaces between private and public, individual and collective.

Modern still lives are alternated with views of public spaces, architectural elements and interiors. The images, often filtered through windows, mirrored on screens or blocked by gates or fences, reveal their ambiguity to the viewer’s gaze, which is reflected in the support of some of the prints.The city and its architectures are seen from the point of their delimiting and structural functions and in relation to the human body, whose presence is just hinted or perceived by the movement of the frame. These familiar landscapes and accidental compositions reflect an interior dimension, made of intimate, suspended, and waiting images.The act of looking, captured in the images, initiates and directs recurring but estranged narratives involving the viewer in the forms of individual and personal experiences, underlining topics of accessibility and proximity.Protective equipment, interior details and silent urban views - configured as pictorial compositions - emphasise a subjective and affective dimension. The collages composed by packaging paper, voyeuristic photos and the fragments of dialogues, punctuate the impossibility of fully grasping an intimate and emotional space. As a visual journal with references to popular culture and childhood imageries, the works constellate the exhibition space, evoking a feeling of protection and isolation.