“I Would Like to Stay Here a Little Longer”: Erika Pellicci’s First Solo Exhibition at ME Vannucci
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From November 30, 2025 to February 16, 2026, ME Vannucci Gallery presents I Would Like to Stay Here a Little Longer, the first solo exhibition by Erika Pellicci, a young Tuscan artist who in recent years has emerged as one of the most sensitive voices in the new Italian photography scene.
Accompanied by a text by Moira Ricci, the exhibition brings together twenty previously unseen photographs, including three large prints on fabric that expand the material and immersive dimension of her work
Entering the exhibition means crossing a threshold—the threshold of a “guest room,” a metaphor evoked by the artist herself. A place that is familiar yet never truly inhabited, steeped in suspended memories and lingering expectations. A provisional space, halfway between refuge and emotional archive, where silent presences seem to move just beneath the surface, between past and present, between what remains and what slips away.
Pellicci’s images function as discreet invitations: each one asks the viewer to pause, to linger in the intimate territory where the artist situates her own vulnerability. The photographs, crafted with great attention to gesture and the body, become listening spaces—visual thresholds that question the way we dwell, observe, and inevitably confront what is fragile, mutable, human.
The practice of Erika Pellicci—born in Barga in 1992 and trained between Florence and Bologna—centers on the idea of the body as a form in transformation. It is a body that inhabits and unravels, acts and withdraws, capable of becoming myth, legend, or simply reality filtered through the gaze. Through photography, video, and performance, Pellicci constructs a layered symbolic language in which the figure—often her own—becomes a medium for exploring the boundary between intimacy and collectivity, belonging and dissolution.
The exhibition marks a new chapter in a career already enriched by international recognition: from awards won in China to museum projects in Italy and abroad, and most recently the Spada Partners Prize 2024 in Turin. After participating in numerous group exhibitions, Pellicci now arrives at her first solo show at ME Vannucci, where she had previously presented her work on two different occasions.
Galleria ME VANNUCCI
Via Gorizia, 122 Pistoia
Date
30 novembre 2025 - 16 febbraio 2026