Opening 16/09 - 17/09 - 31/10, 2026
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James Bantone
Skin Game
Skin Game marks a natural and more deliberate evolution in James Bantone’s ongoing exploration of the body as a vulnerable, unstable image. At the center of the exhibition, skin appears as a sensitive threshold—one that absorbs pressures, desires, and unconscious forms of deception. The new works—spanning sculpture, photography, image transfers, and material interventions—deepen Bantone’s exploration of surfaces and their instability, shifting the focus from artificial bodies to the ways images can be touched, worn, or wounded, and how they begin to operate like skin itself. Within Skin Game, the body becomes an image, and images behave like skin: seductive, fragile, and never entirely trustworthy. Moving through desire, intimacy, and unease, this new chapter opens onto a deeper examination of the image’s inherent fragility. — Eleonora Milani
Skin Game marks a natural and more deliberate evolution in James Bantone’s ongoing exploration of the body as a vulnerable, unstable image. At the center of the exhibition, skin appears as a sensitive threshold—one that absorbs pressures, desires, and unconscious forms of deception. The new works—spanning sculpture, photography, image transfers, and material interventions—deepen Bantone’s exploration of surfaces and their instability, shifting the focus from artificial bodies to the ways images can be touched, worn, or wounded, and how they begin to operate like skin itself. Within Skin Game, the body becomes an image, and images behave like skin: seductive, fragile, and never entirely trustworthy. Moving through desire, intimacy, and unease, this new chapter opens onto a deeper examination of the image’s inherent fragility. — Eleonora Milani
