On the occasion of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we are pleased to present On edge, a group exhibition curated by Silvia Agliotti and Paola Martino at Gli Eroici Furori. For this event, Gli Eroici Furori becomes a space in which sport is stripped of the rhetoric of the event and observed up close, in its most exposed dimension.

The exhibition does not recount competitions nor celebrate achievements; rather, it focuses on what happens in sport before and beyond the result: the body as it confronts its limits, the gesture at the moment when it is still unstable, open, unresolved. At times, the visual sign is inspired by the logo of the international event: we recall that the interlacing of the five Olympic rings symbolizes the union of the five inhabited continents—Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania—and the fraternity among athletes from all over the world, united by the Olympic spirit, which responds to an ideal land with neither borders nor discrimination. A land of peace. An encounter and collaboration among peoples.

The exhibition does not separate the Olympics from the Paralympics. Indeed, “what unites sporting practices is the relationship with the environment, with risk, with limits. It is within this shared space that the body ceases to be classifiable and becomes experience,” writes Paola Martino in the text presented in the gallery.

On view at Gli Eroici Furori is an imaginary place in which movement is not spectacularized for the sake of a result, but instead makes visible a tension—a place of the soul that speaks of the body when it is put to the test, of the marks it leaves, and of the drifts that remain.

The artists participating in the exhibition differ in age and expressive approaches, ranging from painting to sculpture, photography, and installation, also making use of AI.