For the first time in London, an exhibition is dedicated to the work of Ketty La Rocca (1938 - 1976), offering an in-depth overview of the Italian artist’s production across a range of media including drawing, photography, sculpture, visual poetry, and performance. A key figure in Italian visual poetry and Body Art, Ketty La Rocca was deeply engaged with themes of communication, female representation, and the relationship between verbal and bodily language. The exhibition features over fifty works from the artist’s archive, managed by her son Michelangelo Vasta, highlighting her creative evolution: from early critiques of mass media language to the celebrated Riduzioni, in which photographs, words, and gestures merge into striking visual signs. Among the exhibition’s highlights are images transformed by gestural language, X-rays of the skull, and the obsessively cyclical works titled you you, marked by suspended hands in a silent, meaningful space. The installation presents a coherent narrative of Ketty’s artistic journey, addressing tensions between language, identity, and the body, and revealing a dramatic, lucid poetic vision that remains strikingly relevant. The exhibition celebrates a visionary artist capable of transforming the fracture between self and other into a visual universe of gestures, repetitions, and ritual signs - a place where Ketty La Rocca emerges as a pioneer of contemporary art, defined by extraordinary expressive power and conceptual rigor.
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