An intimate dialogue between paintings, drawings, writing and the environment to tell social and collective issues. A site-specific project designed for MAXXI that transforms a corner of the museum (the wall of the staircase that leads from the lobby to the Galleries) into an exhibition space where reality can be exposed amidst ironic and pungent figures and stories. It is NEDKO SOLAKOV's exhibition, A CORNERED SOLO SHOW #2 , curated by Hou Hanru and Monia Trombetta, that visitors will be able to discover at MAXXI from 26 May to 25 September 2022 .

With A Cornered Solo Show #2 Nedko Solakov (Cherven Briag, Bulgaria, 1957), an international artist who lives and works in Sofia, presents a story conceived for a very specific point in the Museum: a visible, passing place, usually not used for exhibitions because it is very different from an exhibition space. A corner that might escape visitors but which, thanks to the artistic intervention, once discovered, offers privileged access to the artist's thoughts and ideas.

Solakov 's ability to tell stories in relation to the surrounding space becomes a vehicle for comments and thoughts on social and collective issues.

Relying on a witty play on words – corner/cornered (corner/being cornered) – the artist chooses a corner of the MAXXI to critically recount highly topical socio-cultural issues and ironically reveal the most hidden mechanisms of contemporary art. Of the latter it explores the complexities, contradictions, alternatives and experiments derived from the urgency to think, to shape, to negotiate with the human condition and self-representation.