Maja Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present Tutto ciò che tace (All that remains silent), the second solo exhibition by Ilaria Sagaria (Salerno, 1989), on view at Via di Monserrato 30, Rome.

The exhibition brings together a selection of twenty photographs created between 2019 and 2025, drawn from different bodies of work—including Piena di grazia and Crisalidi— alongside a group of previously unseen works that lend the exhibition its title.

The works unfold through correspondences and resonances, in a sequence in which the images echo one another, generating subtle and layered connections.

At the core of Sagaria's practice lies a process rooted in an inner urgency: the need to give form to emotional states and thoughts which, through a period of reflection and theoretical inquiry, take shape as visual narrative. In this sense, each image becomes a form of self- portrait, even when the subject does not coincide with the artist herself.

Each image is the result of a carefully constructed process—from setting and garments to objects and the choice of subjects—from which the artist progressively subtracts elements of staging, allowing a more essential dimension to emerge. Her painterly background is re-flected in the use of light and colour, as well as in references to art history that run through the work without ever becoming overt citations.

As Valentina Rippa observes, “details assume a central role [...]; minimal elements become charged with symbolic value and seem to hold a latent memory.” It is in the detail—in the "punctum"—that the image can “wound,” activating intimate resonances that are not entirely translatable.

The title Tutto ciò che tace, drawn from the eponymous series, extends across the entire exhibition as a key to the artist's visual language. Silence becomes its perceptual condition: it manifests in suspended gestures and traces that surface without imposing themselves, opening up a space for connection.

Within the photographs on view, nature, landscape, and the human figure appear as living presences, suspended between a oneiric dimension and archetypal memory. The feminine, in particular, emerges as a space of transformation, poised between fragility and awareness, between adolescence and maturity.

Sagaria's work opens a threshold: it does not close meaning but suspends it, allowing the gaze time to linger, in silence.

The exhibition marks a new chapter in the collaboration between the artist and the gallery, which began in 2023 with her participation in the residency program Una residenza tutta per sé, promoted by Maja Arte Contemporanea in collaboration with collectors Umberto Morera and Anna Maria Balsano Morera, and continued with the two-person exhibition inaugurated in December of the same year.