Giuditta Branconi unveils Cannon Fodder at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia
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For Cannon Fodder, Giuditta Branconi’s first solo exhibition in an institutional venue, the young artist has created a series of new paintings alongside a large-scale installation composed of painted canvases that visitors will be able to physically enter. The exhibition will be held at the Collezione Maramotti (Reggio Emilia) from 8 March to 26 July 2026.
The title of the exhibition (“cannon fodder”) refers to expendable bodies, to a material destined to be consumed by a larger system. In the shift from the military field to a visual and symbolic dimension, Branconi’s images become ammunition of denunciation aimed at a violent and oppressive present: compressed, charged, ready to detonate on the surface of the canvas in an explosion that is not only formal but also emotional and political—an excess that refuses composure.
Branconi’s painting, rich and overflowing, is often characterized by an overwhelming visual density and develops both on the front and the back of the thin fabrics she uses as a support, multiplying expressive possibilities and layers of interpretation.
By combining iconographic references from both high and popular culture—fragments of literature, comics, newspapers, songs, and instant messaging—the artist transforms the space of the painting into a teeming and oxymoronic field, a semiotic labyrinth where images, words, and seemingly incongruous symbols freely coexist, much like in a stream of consciousness.
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