Chiara Brambilla and Roberto Picchi: Alzarsi Presto

With “Alzarsi” presto, Ribot presents for the first time in Milan the work of Chiara Brambilla and Roberto Picchi, two artists whose daily lives are deeply intertwined with the natural environment. Their practices give form to the emotional and material complexities of living alongside the forest, the clearing, and the animal as neighbour and interlocutor.

Chiara Brambilla focuses on the presence of wild animals near her home, especially in relation to hunting traditions and the narratives that have shaped them. Her works begin with old black-and-white photographs—found, altered, or reconstructed—which question the blurred boundaries between care and violence, play and control. Alongside archival images, she presents a new series of papier-mâché sculptures: crouched fawns, suspended between sleep and death, surrender and abandonment—inviting both empathy and unease.

Roberto Picchi turns his attention to the undergrowth: a place of shade and transformation, home to fungi and other silent life forms. In a site-specific installation, groups of beeswax and paraffin elements spread across the gallery floor in visual constellations that echo forest margins. Wall works expand this approach, combining painting and sculpture to explore cycles of life and decay through tactile, fragmented landscapes.

Brambilla and Picchi share the habit—common to hunters and foragers—of rising at dawn. Alzarsi presto reflects this early morning proximity to nature: a quiet, unforced coexistence with the animal and vegetal worlds that surround and outlast us.