The Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation is proud to present Portals, the debut exhibition by Paola Bay. The project stems from the long-term friendship between Nicoletta Fiorucci and the artist, who over the years shared various practices and ceremonies that helped build their spiritual journey. Portals, brings Paola’s diverse series of paintings together to reveal their energetic potential. With the ongoing environmental damage and the advancement of AI, whose consequences are crucially impactful but still hard to foresee, creating a space where to sense that there is no distinction between humanity and the environment we inhabit is even more timely. Paola’s paintings act as a kind of technology: her richly coloured visual journeys open doorways to self-discovery, inviting us to be present, transcend the boundaries of the physical, and connect deeply with the essence of both ourselves and nature.

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