Caterina De Nicola, Irene Fenara, Lorenza Longhi | Le imperfezioni | MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma

11 June – 30 August 2026

The Fondazione Paul Thorel presents the third edition of its prize honoring the Italian-French artist Paul Thorel (1956-2020), a pioneer of digital photography since the 1980s.

The three winning artists — Caterina De Nicola, Irene Fenara, and Lorenza Longhi — interpret the relationship between real and virtual life through works that reconsider our place in a turbo-capitalist society.

The exhibition’s title, Le imperfezioni (The Imperfections), represents an antidote to the predictable perfection of the machine, to accelerated time, and to computation. The works present labor as a gesture of resistance through artisanal techniques and organic materials, privileging errors and discards over computational perfection.

The artists created their works during a month-long residency at Thorel’s Naples studio. Each winner will be featured in a publication in the prize’s editorial series in collaboration with NERO Editions.

MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma
Via Nizza, 138
00198 Roma