Giulia Cenci presents her hollow men suspended between natural and artificial, past and present, memory and oblivion.

Giulia Cenci: the hollow men is the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition of the artist Giulia Cenci, set up in the new setting of the Project Space in Palazzo Strozzi.
The book, edited by Arturo Galansino, presents the site-specific project of the Tuscan artist, which combines sculpture, installation and drawing, giving life to a dreamlike environment populated by figures and structures that belong to a suspended time. The essays of Arturo Galansino and Marta Papini delve into the art of Cenci, known for its approach that integrates objet trouvé and modeled elements, in order to create immersive sculptures and installations that investigate the essence of man and the relationship between hybrid and real, nature and artifice. The catalogue is enriched by an interview of the curator with the artist, who delves into his approach, method and vision.
The title of Cenci’s work quotes the poem of the same name by TS. Eliot, to whom the project is linked in a very close union. Eliot’s hollow men are inert figures, in a limbo between life and death, incapable of acting or redeeming themselves after surviving the drama of the First World War. Likewise, Giulia Cenci’s “empty men” become a symbol and means capable of triggering a reflection on the fragility and contradictions of the human condition, hybridizing natural and synthetic. Because, in Cenci’s own words, «the future is something completely abstract».