Illuminate Riflessioni

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum presents Illuminate Riflessioni, a solo exhibition by Manuela Bedeschi curated by Matteo Galbiati. From 17 October 2025 to 4 January 2026, eighteen neon works will be displayed throughout the rooms of the museum, transforming signs and words into light, matter, and sensory experience..

The installations, mainly site-specific, are located in domestic environments, creating a luminous flow that unites past and present, intertwining within the Museum's collections. Each room becomes the guardian of new meanings, inviting visitors to reflect, listen and remember, transforming the domestic space into a place of shared emotional experience.

As curator Matteo Galbiati points out:

"At the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, where each work has been designed, if not created specifically, and chosen with extreme care and attention for these admirable environments, Bedeschi's language thrives on a greater relationship with the place, its contents, its inscriptions and its traditions. Neon lights up fragments of a history that belongs to us again today: one need only pause and read to recall those connections that come to life in a useful reflective pause. Which is, ultimately, the true moment of knowledge to be observed until the end."

The exhibition includes previously unseen and site-specific works, inspired by the Latin inscriptions in the house, including RESPICE FINEM, located on the terrace overlooking the inner courtyard. This manifesto work, which will remain on display throughout 2026, invites visitors to reflect personally, expanding the dialogue between light, space and memory.

As the artist herself explains:

'We no longer stop to look at what surrounds us... And above all, to listen. The latter is the activity we are most neglectful of towards ourselves, others and the natural world... Exhibiting them in places not dedicated to presenting art, I think, attracts more attention, because initially they are mistaken for advertising signs, and then, when you realise that this is not the case, you can stop for a moment and think: why? What should I think, look at, listen to?"

The exhibition winds its way through room after room, in harmonious dialogue with the domestic environments once inhabited by the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers, where every word, shape or sign becomes an image, light and reflection, enhancing the museum spaces as places steeped in memory.