Notes From Another World — Beatrice Spadea

Projects and exhibitions

WEAVINGS

I CARRY THE FOREST INSIDE
batik and eco print on silk

CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A VOICE
ceramic sound sculptures

MUTAFORMA
Papier-mâché sculptures

ERBARI
batik on silk

FOREST REVERIE
works on paper

CURSES, SPELLS AND OTHER MAGICS
duo show with Elisa Bertaglia (2024)

NOTES FROM ANOTHER WORLD
solo show (2023)

SITE SPECIFIC WORKS

PAPER SCULPTURES

Limited Editions

Inner Maps, 2025
Textile series
Available here

Rivedere la foresta, 2024
Limited Edition Print

Surreal Landscapes, 2023
Limited Edition of scarves

BEATRICE SPADEA
b.1995
Italy

Beatrice Spadea’s practice explores the intersections of imagination, perception, and memory, investigating how these dimensions shape our experience of the world. Her work moves through spaces where dream, fantasy, and poetry emerge, opening reflective and alternative perspectives.

Her earlier works engaged with shared natural and cosmic symbols, which formed the starting point of her research. Over time, her focus has shifted toward a sensory crisis and a growing estrangement from the natural world, and how this disconnection shapes inner life and perception. The forest often appears as a central presence, understood as both a physical and psychic space of renewal, coexistence, and resonance.

At the core of her current practice are textile works developed through batik-dyed silks and hand-assembled pieces on a loom. Through slow, process-based techniques, she explores themes of identity, transformation, and voice, allowing forms to frag- ment, shift, and reorganize. Ceramic sculptures and sound operate in dialogue with the textile works, extending the investigation of resonance and presence. Through these materials, she seeks to awaken perception and build an imaginary ecosystem where matter and sound reconnect us with the living world.

Solo

(2024)The Portal of Timeless Dreams, temporary public installation, Via Borgonuovo 1, Milan

(2023) Notes From Another World, solo show, Galleria Martina Corbetta, Giussano, MB

(2021) One Step Closer to the Sky, solo show JC Gallery Mayfair, London - England

Selected group exhibitions

(2025) Seamspells, Forci Art Foundation, Tenuta di Forci, Lucca, LU
(2025) Mondi Sottili, Studio DeTales, Milano, MI
(2024) Curses, Spells and Other Magics, di Elisa Bertaglia e Beatrice Spadea Galleria Marti- na Corbetta, Giussano, MB
(2022) Roots Of Day, group show, JC Gallery Mayfair , London - England
(2022) C.R.A.C. Crepe, Rotture, Alterazioni e Cicatrici, group show Artiglieria, Contemporary Art Center, Torino, TO

Awards

(2023) ArtPrize 2023, group show, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US
(2022) Combat Prize 13° Edition, group show, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno
(2021) Arte Laguna Prize 15° Edition, group show Arsenale, Venezia
(2020) Winner of Nice&Fair Contemporary Visions Paratissima, Torino

Residencies

(2025) Forci Art Foundation, Textile Art residency, Tenuta di Forci, Lucca

Education

(2015-2018) Bachelor’s Degree in Painting, Three-Year Program – Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera

Last Updated 04/02/2026

Photo © Cosimo Filippini

view from Notes From Another World (2023)
solo show, curated by Martina Corbetta

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[...] Each exhibition contains its own experience and, in the case of Notes from another world, it all started simply by imagining that we were taking the viewer into “that” dimension. Without too many ambitions, Beatrice went straight where it was right to go. We first of all believed that the portals had to be the body of work from which to start. The rest came spontaneously, through experimentation and dialogue.

Je Suis L’Espace Où Je Suis is the work that welcomes us as soon as we enter the gallery, a crucial installation of the exhibition. A triangular wooden structure painted in a periwinkle color on which a tulle of the same tone is draped and on which the written explicit quote taken from the precious book L’état d’ébauche by Noël Arnaud, illustrated by Max Bucaille, is embroidered by hand. From such message the artist extrapolates her inspiration by reflecting on space and time as omnipresent factors. The work, suspended from the ceiling at the center of the in- tersection of the longest sides of the triangle, floats in space, becoming at the same time a dynamic sculpture and installation. The work, oscillating and active, forces us to move and read what is quoted and immediately leads us, introducing into the very core of the exhibition.

There are two doors of leaves that have to be crossed to access the dream. Threshold Of A Dream is the key passa- ge. Passing through this forest of satin fabric leaves, me- ticulously cut and sewn by hand by the artist, we find our- selves in the dreamlike theater of Beatrice Spadea. Those thinned leaves that seemed so embryonic in the studio are now main characters and necessary. From here, everyone is left on their own fantastic journey. On the walls, elegant graphite drawings on Japanese paper, depicting dense branches, frame the recreated space. The works are made up of two sheets of paper, also drawn with graphite, crea- ting a fading effect, almost fog, through the superimposi- tion. The sheet of paper of the first layer becomes a filter that makes the second evanescent, accentuating the ef- fect of vision and enchantment. A black and white dream in which spatial cognition must go beyond, no collocation, no direction... what Beatrice most desires is to suggest the multiplication of the indefinite and bring the mysterious closer. The forest is vital silence, silence that comes ali- ve with life. This body of work is contained in the Rêverie della Foresta series; rêverie which indicates a dreamland in which to walk, get lost and find yourself. Thanks to the
apparently simple and easily recognizable shapes – bran- ches, leaves or starry skies – Beatrice tries to reveal the most ancestral traits, characterizing a dimension which, in a fantastic universe, we perceive as conveniently possible.

The journey continues and the vision opens towards a boundless space. The gaze rises from the dense forest and gets lost in the immensity of the universe. On the lon- gest wall of the Gallery, five paintings on canvas return the image of a starry night sky: La Segreta Geometria Della Notte. Like fragments of the sky, these works represent the transformation from night to day or from day to night. The vision changes completely; from the complex lattice of the forest, in which every spatial reference is cancelled, now the stars return a point of reference. It’s like finding yourself after being lost.

Active in the space, the three portals: Desiderio, Gateway and A Dive Beyond refer to where it all began. These, to- gether with the paintings on canvas, the drawings on pa- per, the embroidery on tulle and the installations of lea- ves, are nothing more than silhouettes full of symbology that take form in our dreams. However, this not only refers to our nocturnal dreams, because the protagonist of the exhibition is actually the daydream, that vision or halluci- nation that consciously amplifies everything. The leaf be- comes a plant, the branches a whole forest, the star an entire cosmos and a fragment of the celestial vault becomes infinite. Notes from another world is an invitation to experience a dreamlike journey.

Martina Corbetta

Je Suis L’Espace Où Je Suis, 2023
Embroidered tulle on wooden frame 220x140x4 cm

Threashold of a Dream, 2023
Quilted satin leaves, variable dimensions

Gateway, 2022
Cotton threads on wooden frame 210x105x30 cm

Desiderio, 2022
Cotton threads on wooden frame, 200x200x30 cm

Forest Reverie, 2023
graphite on Japanese Awagami paper, 132x96 cm

Forest Rèverie, 2023
Graphite on Japanese Awagami paper 37x27 cm each

Forest Rèverie, 2023
Graphite on Japanese Awagami paper 200x30 cm each

La Segreta Geometria della Notte, 2023
Oil on canvas
Variable dimensions, approx. 190x70 cm each