It is never easy to fully describe an artist’s work. An encounter with a work of art is an experience that unites, connecting the gaze and the space with one’s own thoughts. Liliana Moro’s (Milan, 1961) entire career follows these principles: sharing, listening, and dialogue, very often applied in public settings.
Liliana Moro, “| senza | soluzione di continuità”, 2026, installation view Platea | Palazzo Galeano, courtesy: the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Albisola and Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, ph credits Alessio Belloni
Similarly, the artist’s installation that opens Platea’s exhibition season is a simple, minimalist gesture – one that imbues public action with meaning and significance; in | senza | soluzione di continuità (without | interruption), the artist covers the walls of the display window with a mirrored surface and installs a sculptural element: a yellow tube with a green appendage from which water flows, pouring into a hole in the floor. Catching the eye, this element evokes the visual language typical of road signage – such as a pole or a support – were it not for that green protrusion from which, at night, a trickle of water flows, thereby activating the installation. Thus, the reference to road elements and the Adda River (the fountain) creates a close connection between Lodi’s urban and natural environments; a vast and diverse public audience interacts with an architectural and atmospheric structure that blends into the daily rhythm and customs of the city, fostering a gentle mutual encounter.
Liliana Moro, “| senza | soluzione di continuità”, 2026, installation view Platea | Palazzo Galeano, courtesy: the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Albisola and Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, ph credits Alessio Belloni
Even so, Liliana Moro’s work stands as a subtle yet powerful and incisive artistic gesture – essential and measured – an act that simply revolutionizes the perception of public space. The artist formalizes the need to open up the art space and redefine the identity of the display window not only as an exhibition space but also as a space with a social presence, mirroring the structure itself. | senza | soluzione di continuità is a project that alters the physical and visual presence of a space dedicated to contemporary art; the work is designed to interact, in its own way, with the public that regularly frequents the square and the city, in order to foster critical thinking regarding the transience of the narratives presented. For months, Liliana Moro’s project transforms the space into a reflective body: open to the collective dimension and free to flow between interior and exterior. A sensitive instrument and recorder of the dynamics of the space, Platea breaks with the notion of art as an exclusive display, yet connects with daily life, with atmospheric conditions, and with the passing of days and hours that relentlessly follow one another, becoming part of the work.
Liliana Moro, “| senza | soluzione di continuità”, 2026, installation view Platea | Palazzo Galeano, courtesy: the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Albisola and Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, ph credits Alessio Belloni
| senza | soluzione di continuità also incorporates another characteristic element of Liliana Moro’s artistic practice: sound. The water gushing through the green spout naturally produces a sound effect as it flows and falls into the hole. It is a rustling, a gurgling audible only at night when the installation is activated; the night owls (those who inhabit the city from dusk till dawn) will be able to boast a unique knowledge and experience of the work. Sound is the keeper of secrets reserved for night owls; it accompanies solitude or amplifies the urban rhythm, within which that aquatic sound transforms into the incessant and tireless call of the artwork.
Liliana Moro, “| senza | soluzione di continuità”, 2026 (detail), Platea | Palazzo Galeano, courtesy: the artist, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Albisola and Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, ph credits Alessio Belloni
The project | senza | soluzione di continuità inaugurated “Fivefold Tuning” the exhibition program at Platea | Palazzo Galeano (curated by Giovanna Manzotti). As the title suggests, this is a coming together of five voices that will harmonize with one another, thus creating a chorus of diverse and harmonized artistic practices. Liliana Moro has set the initial tone, but each future contribution by the four emerging artists will arise from encounter, sharing, and exchange in a constant and progressive process of attunement.
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Liliana Moro, | senza | soluzione di continuità
curated by Giovanna Manzotti
20/03/20216 – 15/01/2027
Platea | Palazzo Galeano
Palazzo Galeano, Corso Umberto I, 46, Lodi
www.platea.gallery
Irene Follador (Venice, 1997) is an emerging critic and curator. She graduated first in Art History at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, and then she obtained a master’s degree at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. She has been collaborating with Juliet Art Magazine for a long time and, at the same time, she carries out her independent curatorial practice; her research and interest mainly tends towards works of moving images and new Media within the contemporary art system.
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