The exhibition, curated by Alessandra Pacelli and with the artistic direction of Luigi Battisti, presents the latest pictorial production of the Roman author, who enters into dialogue with the natural world through a sequence of canvases of various sizes, which compose the story of an enchanted landscape.

The works proposed in the exhibition are made in oil on canvas, with a painting alla prima.

The paintings, all made in 2025, have different dimensions that vary from the small format of 10x15cm or 10x30cm, to a medium-large format of 30x40cm, 60x80cm, 100x60cm. The paintings are accompanied by an evocative site-specific tapestry carpet of over two meters and installed on a table, made of cotton, on the frame with the Tufting technique, in a successful collaboration with the artist Davide Dekodaka.

The entire work is inspired by the garden La Mortella that the English Lady Walton created in Ischia, here dissected into details that enhance the fleshiness of plants and flowers crystallized in an eternal and unrepeatable bloom.

“Elisa Selli’s relationship with the botanical universe is not only contemplative and reflective,” writes the curator. “Her artistic practice leads her to interact with nature, imposing her own times, her hyperrealism that is never cold or distant. The obsession with detail leaves behind all academic dogmatism to become magic, enchantment, short circuit, high. And then the paintings become the incarnation of a dream, the memory of a landscape that one would like to save from contamination and filth. And the game of painting the perfection of imperfection becomes increasingly seductive.”