The catalogue accompanies the exhibition questo silenzio intorno , a project by Domenico Grenci with Eugenia Delbue , and restores its most intimate and procedural plot: an investigation into the portrait that arises from a concrete and reiterated relationship, founded on listening, time and reciprocity.
The volume collects the drawings and paintings presented in the exhibition, along with environmental images of the installation, conveying the depth of a project that intertwines pictorial practice and presence. The sequence of works follows the rhythm of the posing sessions, allowing the repetition of the gesture to emerge as an exercise in attention and a progressive approach to a resemblance that is both formal and interior.
The catalogue includes a special edition of Eugenia Delbue's diary: a selection of her writings, written immediately after the days spent posing. In these pages, the writing crystallizes internal images, sensory perceptions, and states experienced during prolonged immobility, offering a sensitive and essential counterpoint to the practice of portraiture. The dialogue between painting and words thus broadens the scope of the work, making visible the shared dimension of experience.
The graphic design, measured and essential, alternates close-ups with panoramic views, transforming the catalogue into a space for contemplation. More than a simple exhibition documentation, the volume is an extension of the show, preserving the suspended quality of the gesture and renewing, page after page, the question that runs through the entire project: who portrays whom, in the long span of shared gaze.
