From 26 October to 10 November 2023 the Fabbrica del Vapore (Cultural Beehive) hosts Aliteia's first solo exhibition The Ballad of Human Mutations in Milan. The exhibition, curated by Alisia Viola, was organized in partnership with ACMT-Rete for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and in collaboration with PROSSIMI Srl Impresa Sociale ETS. The artist Aliteia brings to art for the first time a project focused on Charcot-Marie-Tooth, the most common of the hereditary neuropathies but at the same time a rare and little-known pathology, which for the artist is the common characteristic of his family . Art thus becomes a vehicle of knowledge and transformation, but above all of beauty understood as a perfect and constant balance between imperfections.

The Ballad of Human Mutations aims to be a manifesto of non-conforming bodies aimed at integrating new aesthetic values into contemporary society. The objective of the project is in fact to create a revolutionary myth of the different and the fragile starting from the body: to have an unprecedented gaze to incorporate everything that is non-standard in us and experience it as a resource, grasping the authentic beauty of being human. The aim, therefore, is to bring the codes of non-perfection as new judgmental and social values.

The exhibition sees the union and contamination of various disciplines that interact with each other such as: performance, photography and sculpture. The exhibition investigates - through the exhibition of 20 medium-large format photographs and a site-based sculptural installation - specific - the beauty, uniqueness and strength of individuals with bodies far from both classic and contemporary models, exposing their non-perfections, which are most evident in the deformities of the hands and feet, typical of this disease. Aliteia succeeded in its primary aim of immortalizing the turmoil of all the people involved and photographed during the circle, the artist's performative practice, which guides those present towards acceptance and the achievement of maximum self-expression. The photographs on display therefore become testimony to how everyone can have the courage to overcome their own shame and live for who they really are, without hiding. At the same time, above all, she has managed to create, through performative artistic practice, an extraordinary climate in which one can feel fully free, showing one's internal and external world without borders and without fear of prejudice.