Anyway, personal exhibition by Valentina Restivo

Studio 74 by Galleria Fidanda presents Todo modo, a solo exhibition by Valentina Restivo (Livorno, 1983), which will be inaugurated on Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 7 pm at the headquarters at Via Leonardo Cambini 30, in Livorno. The exhibition will be open to the public until Saturday, July 25, 2026.

The exhibition Todo modo by Valentina Restivo takes root from the narrative universe of Leonardo Sciascia and his cinematic translation by Elio Petri, assuming not so much the allegorical dimension as the ability to expose the invisible mechanisms of power. In the novel, as in the film, what emerges is not the representation of a solid and monolithic authority, but of a structure that survives itself, supported by rituals, languages, and relationships that continue to reproduce even when their original meaning seems to have dissolved.

Like the “spider web in the void” evoked by Sciascia, Restivo’s works construct a landscape made of traces, connections, and fragile balances, where what appears stable reveals its precarious nature . This leads to a reflection on the symbolic architectures that organize reality and on the mechanisms through which power continues to represent itself.

As often happens in her research, the starting point is a cultural and affective universe that is traversed, deconstructed, and returned through drawing and painting in the form of a portrait. A search built around frames, cinema and literature figures, giving life to images suspended between homage, interpretation, and reinvention.

The works on display investigate systems of signs, residual presences, symbolic architectures, and forms of memory sedimentation. Objects, images, and materials are removed from their original function and relocated in a space of ambiguity, where each element appears as the trace of a pre-existing order and at the same time as the fragment of something that is progressively disintegrating. What interests the artist is not the direct representation of power, but its persistence in the form of habit, invisible structure, a device that continues to act even when its foundations waver.

More than a narrative, Todo modo offers a space for inquiry: a place to observe what remains, what transforms, and what continues to operate beneath the surface of things.

Valentina Restivo (Livorno, 1983) is a painter, illustrator, and visual artist from Livorno whose work focuses mainly on portraiture and the dialogue between art, cinema, and cultural memory. Graduated in Cinema and Electronic Image at the University of Pisa with an illustrated thesis dedicated to Salò or the

120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini, she later perfected her training at the prestigious International School of Graphic Art “Il Bisonte” in Florence.

Her artistic research is characterized by a strong graphic sign and a particular attention to faces, characters from literature, cinema, and art that have influenced her imagination.

Over the years, she has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, carrying on an original research that intertwines illustration, painting, and film culture.

Her works dedicated to Pasolini have received international recognition, leading to important exhibitions in France and China.