Margherita Mezzetti

An unsolvable, even disturbing tension shines through in the works of Margherita Mezzetti (Siena, 1990): the female subjects she portrays have gentle doll-like eyes wide with terror (Dolores II, 2024), pretty faces covered in bruises or grotesquely deformed by crying (A smell of rain and dirt, 2024), tight corsets that enhance their features but are also stained with blood from hidden wounds (L'erede, 2025).

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and now based in Berlin, Mezzetti creates a conscious disorientation in the viewer, revealing fantastical worlds populated by hyper-sexualized girls and teenagers, as if saturating forms and figures from the collective imagination to reveal their violence, distortions, and abuses. Reminiscent of Lewis Carroll and Gothic chimes, Mezzetti's art is a careful study of figuration, but also a playful act of reappropriation of the body and subjectivity.

Giulia Oglialoro