Santiago de Paoli, Prinz Gholam Paris Internationale Milano

Booth 2.08

Palazzo Galbani
Via Fabio Filzi, 25R, 20124 Milan

For this first edition of Paris Internationale Milano, we present a curated selection of works by Prinz Gholam and Santiago de Paoli. Though emerging from distinct conceptual and geographic contexts, their practices resonate through shared aesthetic affinities and a sustained engagement with physicality, density and tactility. Born in Buenos Aires in 1978 and now based in New York, Santiago de Paoli works with unconventional materials such as plaster, copper and felt. His practice revisits recurring motifs — moons, candles, socks, flowers, clouds — inflected with subtle irony, between intimacy and absurdity. For this presentation, we will focus on four paintings depicting butts at times fused into domestic objects. It evokes a surrealist lineage and echo assemblage, reflecting an artistic heritage rooted in Argentina. In dialogue, drawings by the Berlin-based duo Prinz Gholam extend this focus on the (un)gendered body.

Working between performance and drawing, their practice unfolds between the live body and its representation. Some works document enacted gestures; others feature paper masks worn by them. They often reference historical depictions of the male body and contemporary homosocial and sexual imagery, notably in a recent series inspired by Fassbinder’s Querelle. Deeply invested in sensuality as both subject and method, these works engage the body as a site of tension. Installed together, they will create a charged hanging anchored in rigorous theoretical inquiry.