The Nivola Museum presents Blue Blooded – Sangue blu, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Hannah Levy, which opens on Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 11:30 am. Curated by Giuliana Altea, Antonella Camarda, and Luca Cheri, the exhibition brings together a group of new sculptures inspired by the horseshoe crab, a marine arthropod with an unsettling appearance that has survived for hundreds of millions of years and whose blue blood is now widely used to ensure the safety of vaccines and medical devices.

Levy's sculptures combine polished metal with silicone and translucent glass, generating sinuous forms that - while recalling a surrealist imagery - evoke animals, insects, and organic morphologies, discreetly alluding at the same time to the elegance of Art Nouveau and modernist design. Inserting herself into a genealogy that includes artists such as Meret Oppenheim, Louise Bourgeois, and Robert Gober, Levy merges industrial aesthetics and natural images to suggest presences that are both seductive and disturbing.

The central piece of the exhibition is a large tentacular structure made of stainless steel and silicone, reminiscent of a light canopy supported by long, thin legs. Its proportions echo those of the museum space, and its silhouette suggests both a beach shelter and a fossilized skeleton displayed in a natural history museum. The taut covering, resembling a spiny shell, and the legs inspired by the morphology of the horseshoe crab give life to an architectural organism that inhabits the nave as a presence suspended between refuge and relic.

Next to this installation, glass sculptures are supported by sharp metallic claws. These forms appear as bodies in tension, caught halfway between a fluid state and a solid state. A glass form, resembling a shell, stretches on delicate supports, like an animal acclimating by finding refuge in a new home. The glass in these works exists as a trace of a past action: the moment of its transformation into a molten state under the pressure of stainless steel, frozen in time.