Giulia Cenci - The hollow men

The hollow men is the exhibition conceived for the Project Space at Palazzo Strozzi by Italian artist Giulia Cenci and curated by the Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Arturo Galansino.

In her artistic practice, Giulia Cenci works with elements drawn from everyday life and the industrial world, transforming them into imaginary landscapes and habitats where scraps, remnants, and reclaimed materials merge with hybrid figures that blur the boundaries between human and animal. Her artworks challenge hierarchies and boundaries, presenting scenarios where every element seems to swing between recognizability and alteration. The exhibition title references to the homonymous T. S. Eliot’s 1925 poem in which the “hollow men” are inert figures, caught in a limbo between life and death, incapable of action or redemption after the trauma of the First World War.