↑↓ ”, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Aki Ilomäki and Dorota Jurczak , in collaboration with Stamperia Nancy Granata (Palermo) and other local artisan identities.

The title "↑↓" suggests a movement both upwards and downwards, expressing a paradoxical and ironic idea of disorientation, contradiction and complexity in concepts. Inspired by the questioning of perspectives and perceptions, the exhibition compares two languages as ancient as they are current, sculpture and painting, intertwining mythological elements with everyday life as a unique and ambiguous fusion .

Aki Ilomäki (Helsinki, 1982). Lives and works in Palermo.

Recent exhibitions include: Kitchen Paintings , Southwillard, Los Angeles (2022); Project Space , Winter Project, London (2014); Innermost Man , Ed's flat, London (2012).

Dorota Jurczak (Warsaw, 1978). Lives and works in Stuttgart.

Recent exhibitions include: Dorota Jurczak, bratki , Kin, Bruxellles (2023); In Restless Dreams I Walk Alone , Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv "złotousty", Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (2019); “Bzzz”, NO.5 Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2018); Johanna , Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart (2017).