Órama. Eleonora Rinaldi

27 May – 27 September 2025
Venice, Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Project room

Curated by Francesco Liggieri and Christian Palazzo

Organized by
Spazio SV
No Title Gallery

The title of the exhibition, Órama, is derived from ancient Greek, meaning “vision” or “dream,” and encapsulates the essence of Eleonora Rinaldi’s artistic enquiry. The seven works on display, created in Paris in 2025, explore themes of perception and visual memory.

The exhibition unfolds around the idea of nature as a primordial space of vision and revelation. The subjects emerge from scenes suspended between dream and reality, where the landscape becomes a conduit for delving into the subconscious. Through the use of vivid colours and rarefied atmospheres, the human figures are enveloped in states of trance and hallucination, evoking a heightened and altered sense of reality.

Rinaldi invites us to explore the mind’s capacity to transcend the visible and transform it into an emotional and sensory experience. Echoing the reflections of Coleridge, her work questions the nature of reality and perception: what if our dreams could truly take form? This question finds a parallel in the thought of Oliver Sacks, who, in Hallucinations, examines how perception can deviate from the norm and give rise to entirely new realities.

The works on display reveal a tension between the real and the visionary. Vegetation envelops the human form, dissolving into a chromatic weave that shifts between the tangible and the intangible. Plants and flowers are not mere backgrounds, but active elements in a dreamlike landscape that merges with human imagination. In this fluid space, the boundary between reality and its oneiric reflection becomes increasingly thin: vision turns into transition, a suspension of the visible. Through poetic and hypnotic imagery, Eleonora Rinaldi leads us into a state of altered consciousness, where reality dissolves and reassembles into a deep sensory experience.

Órama is not just an exhibition – it is a journey into the mystery of perception and the very essence of dreaming.     

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Eleonora Rinaldi (Udine, 1994) is an Italian artist living and working in Paris. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 2020, she completed her studies with a Master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2023. Her artistic practice, focused on painting and drawing, gives life to imaginary worlds born from the observation of reality and the blending of personal experiences with literary and art-historical references. Through a mental process of visualisation, Rinaldi constructs complex scenes by assembling collected imagery into a symbolic and layered narrative. Drawing serves as the foundation for defining these visions, while colour—applied in successive layers—builds depth and atmosphere. Light and colour play a central role, bringing to life landscapes suspended between dream and reality, where enigmatic elements emerge, open to multiple interpretations. Through her work, Rinaldi invites the viewer on a journey beyond time and space, evoking emotions of awe, wonder, and fragility.