Roxy in The Box

Social pop Mirabilia

may 10 — june 22, 2024

via carlo poerio 116

Friday 10 May at 7 pm, at the Studio Trisorio in via Carlo Poerio 116, a personal exhibition of Roxy in the Box entitled Social Pop Mirabilia will be inaugurated.

The small, street-front space will host more than 50 of the artist's works – acrylics on canvas, lightboxes, neons, sculptures, video installations – showcasing the Neapolitan artist's entire pop universe.

Roxy in the Box's ironic and irreverent gaze explores and mocks every aspect of the world around her.

While the city of Naples is where the artist's soul and her artistic theatre find daily nourishment, her art looks to the world and addresses universal themes, while her works display an infinite repertoire of symbols found in the language of mass consumption, the icons of cinema, of advertising, of comics and of cartoons.

Her colourful, light-hearted imagery places into juxtaposition such topical issues as gender identity and roles, feminism, social constrictions, the pain of solitude, the need for love, consumerist alienation, and migration thus allowing us to view them in another manner.

The exhibition features new sculptures from the Conchiglia conchistai series, reinterpreted, new versions of the installations Between the sheet and Maresistere, T’aggia scassà ’o sanghe, with her signature song lyrics include all the Neapolitan idioms where the word blood is used, the large-scale acrylic on canvas entitled Ti prenderei per le palle which starkly contrasts with a statue depicting the Venus de Milo which every woman visiting the exhibition can sign thus transforming it into a collective work.

The exhibition is open to the public until 22 June.