Florence, at Crumb Gallery the exhibition of Maura Banfo

From June 11 to October 3, 2026, Crumb Gallery in Florence is hosting Until Here, a solo exhibition by Maura Banfo. The exhibition is a project conceived and designed for the Florentine space and starts with a title that explicitly recalls the processual character of the artist’s research. Until Here indicates a temporary threshold, a point of passage within a path that is defined through successive transformations and continuous returns.

“I’m not interested in closing the work. I’m not interested in arriving at a final form. I’m interested in staying within the process,” Banfo says in the interview with Rory Cappelli published in the catalog produced for the occasion (Nolines Series, Crumb Gallery Editions).

Banfo’s research is based on the collection of minimal fragments and presences: feathers, shells, flowers, nests, old photographs. Heterogeneous elements that are received and reworked within a process of regeneration that follows the natural rhythm of things, without landing on a definitive form.

The exhibition itinerary presents different works, including polaroids, photographs, India ink and a glazed ceramic, arranged as autonomous visual cores, similar to short stories capable of evoking traces, presences and suspended times. A relevant part of the polaroids was made during the pandemic period by Covid-19: intimate images, marked by a suspended condition, in which the artist’s presence emerges discreetly and constantly. In one of the works, the figure manifests itself through a minimal detail, as in the photograph of feet with golden slippers, an element that symbolically introduces the exhibition path and suggests an idea of threshold.

The stokes introduce a more essential and meditative dimension. Marks, voids and light stratifications build images that seem to emerge gradually, maintaining a condition of openness and non-completeness. Again, the work avoids a definitive form, favoring the possibility of change and return. Closing the path is a glazed ceramic, a material presence that concentrates the tension between permanence and precariousness that runs through the artist’s entire research.

Florence, at Crumb Gallery the exhibition of Maura Banfo

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