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In the quiet heart of Villa Giulia, water seems to hold centuries of memory while subtle sound vibrations announce the present. Until November 2, 2025, the Nymphaeum of the National Etruscan Museum of Rome hosts a solo exhibition by Keita Miyazaki.
Born in Tokyo in 1983 and working between Japan and the United Kingdom, Keita Miyazaki transforms the contradictions of modernity into breathing sculptures. After witnessing the 2011 tsunami, the artist developed a poetic language that probes the fragility of our time through discarded materials: car engines, industrial metals, origami paper, stitched felt, and urban sounds merge into biomorphic bodies suspended between apocalypse and rebirth. His sound installations - echoing Japanese supermarket jingles and subway melodies - break the static boundaries of classical sculpture. In the newly restored Nymphaeum, sixteenth-century marbles and monumental fountains converse with these hybrid organisms, turning the space into a laboratory of metamorphosis. Winner of the CREA OPEN 2025 special prize, Miyazaki reclaims the ruins of modernity and transforms them into an aesthetic of reconciliation, where past and future flow together like water that renews.