Barbara Bonfilio | Equinozio dell’Anima | Emmeotto Arte
21 March — 30 June 2026
Curated by Valentina Luzi
The first time one encounters Barbara Bonfilio’s works, the sensation is that of stepping softly into a refined yet captivating universe, where forms emerge with delicacy and elegance from an indistinct background, like memories surfacing from distant recollections. Almost without realizing it, one finds oneself enchanted by an intimate and profound dimension, by a vision that is certainly the artist’s, yet ultimately becomes our own—a world of signs, colors, and bodies that invites us, without hesitation, to reflect on the complexity of existence and human interiority, and on our relationship with nature.
Barbara Bonfilio grew up in the heart of the Pollino National Park, where nature takes center stage: forests, mountains, the sea on the horizon, and a rich biodiversity of animals, flowers, and plants that have nourished her imagination and memory, later shaping and refining her artistic sensitivity. In this fertile ground, drawing and painting became forms of expression and communication—an intrinsic part of her being, a way of existing and perceiving reality, the language through which she learned to know herself.
In the works on display—paintings and drawings—we can perceive the inseparable connection between human beings and their environment, both physical and emotional, expressed powerfully through the representation of the body and nature as reflections of the soul. The skin, with its imperfections, becomes a visual metaphor for lived experience, a kind of map that tells stories and emotions, a gateway between interior and exterior, between the visible and the invisible. The body is never just a body: it is a personal landscape, a psychic territory, a place of metamorphosis.
This creative act brings us back to the title of the exhibition—that Equinox of the Soul which occurs at the moment when light and shadow are equal: a middle ground that becomes, for the artist, a metaphor for the psyche. It is a journey into a transitional space where light does not erase shadow, but welcomes and transforms it; a territory in which rebirth does not manifest as triumph, but as deep listening.
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