Secondo piano. Sara Salvemini’s solo exhibition at Galleria Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura

From 28 January to 20 February 2026, Galleria Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura in Milan presents Second Floor, a solo exhibition by Sara Salvemini.

The exhibition brings together three cycles from the artist’s practice —Trees, Portraits, and Interiors— within a body of research that explores the relationship between subject and context, body and structure, nature and architecture, through a spatial approach articulated in levels, or “floors.”

Sara Salvemini, Cadorna, watercolour on paper, cm 31 x 31

In the Trees section, the gaze rises ideally from ground level to focus on urban façades. Natural elements come to the fore—often trees captured in the details of trunks and branches—while in the background the façades of Milanese Rationalist architecture unfold. The soft, organic line of nature enters into dialogue with the geometric rhythm of architecture, in a relationship of mutual amplification. The aging of the bark echoes that of the wooden shutters of 1950s buildings, evoking a long, layered sense of time shaped by seasons and architectural memory.

In Portraits, trees give way to large advertising billboards. The centrality of the face, the overproduction of images, and the dominance of the commercial imaginary define an urban landscape marked by the hyper-present and the ephemeral. The female faces of fashion campaigns, logos, and advertising graphics interact incidentally with fragments of façades, in oblique views and unstable perspectives, crossed by the wires of urban lighting. Through drawing, complexity and depth are restored to a visually saturated environment, transforming the advertising image into a stratified vision.

Sara Salvemini, via Lanzone, watercolour on paper, cm 31 x 41

The Interiors section finally introduces a more intimate, domestic dimension. The gaze moves into enclosed spaces—“open” homes or public interiors—blurring the boundary between public and private. In the absence of human figures, the objects of everyday life—a lamp, an armchair, a book—suggest the presence of dwelling, finding their place within the spatial and architectural structure.

Born in Milan in 1978, Sara Salvemini lives and works in Milan. Trained as an architect, she worked for many years at different scales, from architecture to interior design and urban design, developing projects grounded in careful observation of context and its multiple characteristics. Her artistic practice stems from a reflection on space and the contemporary landscape, explored through their performances and the ways in which they are experienced and inhabited.

Sara Salvemini, via dell'Orso, watercolour on paper, cm 31 x 31

With an intuitive, non-programmatic gaze, in Second Floor the artist explores the relationship between the body and the surrounding structure, transforming real space into rhythm and composition and shaping a language in which the vitality of the organic merges with the rigor of architecture.

SARA SALVEMINI. Secondo piano

28 gennaio – 20 febbraio 2026

OPENING | 28 gennaio 2026, ore 18.00

Corso Garibaldi 125 - 20121 Milano