Tomaso Binga: Euforia

“Euforia”, curated by Eva Fabbris in collaboration with Daria Kahn, is Tomaso Binga’s largest museum retrospective to date. It presents over forty years of her artistic practice through more than 120 works, including visual poems, installations, photographs, collages, documents, and performance records – many of which are being shown for the first time or decades after their initial presentation – sourced from museums and private collections.

The title emerged during conversations between the artist and Eva Fabbris: Euphoria – a word particularly cherished by Binga for containing all the vowels, phonetically universal and extroverted – becomes “a title-manifesto”, explains the curator, “a wish, a political necessity of resistance”, and encapsulates both her approach to verbo-visual practice and feminism.

The exhibition is the result of two years of research carried out in close collaboration with the artist and her archive. It features a thematic itinerary across the eighteen rooms on the museum’s third floor, with an experimental circular layout conceived by the multidisciplinary collective Rio Grande in dialogue with Tomaso Binga.

Binga works with verbo-visual writing and is one of the leading figures in Italian phonetic-sound-performance poetry. She participated in the landmark exhibition Materialisation of Language at the 1978 Venice Biennale, invited by Mirella Bentivoglio. A lecturer in Theory and Method of Mass Media at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Frosinone, she has long been a cultural organiser. Since 1974, she has directed the cultural association Lavatoio Contumaciale in Rome, and since 1992, she has served first as vice-president and then as president of the Filiberto Menna Foundation in Salerno.