The Triviale exhibition presents the work of the French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin (1980) with and within the Feel Good Cooperative collective, founded in Rome in 2020 by the same artist together with the architect and researcher Serena Olcuire and a group of trans sex workers Colombians. The core of the Cooperative is also made up of the photographer and sex worker Alexandra Lopez, Giuliana Mira, Gilda Star, Barby de Martinez and Diana Veruzca Martinez.

For the first time on this occasion, Feel Good Cooperative exhibits its work in the form of an exhibition in the same city where it conceived and carried out its collective practice.

The public is welcomed by a balcony overlooking the outside of the room. Behind her lies a theatrical set in which both the public dimension of sex work and the domestic one are staged, ironically addressing themes such as gender identity, migratory issues and the legacies of colonialism.

Three films made by Feel Good Cooperative in Rome divide the exhibition into chapters and the space into islands. Fireflies/Lucciole (2021), filmed on the Via Appia Antica, on the edge of the city, is a self-narration beyond the categories and definitions to which sex workers are normally subject. The film is in dialogue with Alexandra Lopez's sculpture of a reinvented traffic light as a further material revision of the classic metaphors attributed to sex workers. The multimedia installation The Death of the Pope (2023) occupies the back wall of the space and documents the Cooperative's visit to the Vatican after the death of Pope Benedict XVI, through a video and a group of engravings. At the center of the space, a circular bed faces a screen that recalls the making of a doll's house and houses the clothes worn by the members of the Cooperative in their recent performance Le Colonne della Colombo (2023) at EUR. The fascist-era neighbourhood, also known as a meeting point between sex workers and clients, is crossed by Via Cristoforo Colombo, the road leading to the city center built by Mussolini to reposition Italy as a colonial power. The screen of the screen also hosts the screening of the teaser of the performance which took place on October 12, the day Columbus Day is celebrated in the United States.