Oceanic Feeling

Galerie Poggi is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Virginie Ittah, in collaboration with Vittoria Matarrese, author of the curatorial text. A former member of the duo Ittah Yoda (2016 - 2024), Virginie Ittah now develops an artistic practice under her own name, in which figures, narratives, and materials move closer to the body, intimacy, and lived experience. Titled Oceanic Feeling, the exhibition offers an immersive and sensory experience through a new body of paintings and sculptures, in dialogue with two original sound works by pianist and composer Koki Nakano, as well as an olfactory work co-created especially for the occasion with perfumer Yann Vasnier. Alongside this exhibition, for the first time the gallery and the Hartung-Bergman Foundation highlights a rare selection of woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs by Anna-Eva Bergman, chosen by Virginie Ittah. For Bergman, printmaking constitutes a fully-fledged field of research, closely connected to the development of her painting, which is also highlighted through a selection of masterpieces created around the turn of the 1970s, a period during which the theme of the horizon unfolds to become one of her major motifs.