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For her first solo show in the UK, Italian artist Adelaide Cioni (b. 1976) presents Ab ovo / On Patterns. The exhibition is the culmination of the artist’s ongoing exploration of decorative patterns and is her most ambitious project to date, investigating visual language across mediums in a large-scale format.

The focus of Ab ovo (literally ‘from the egg, from the very beginning’) is the recurrence of abstract patterns – stripes, triangles, grids, circles, stylized leaves and stars – both in artefacts and in nature. These recur throughout history and across geographical areas, from early non-western visual imagery to present-day systems. Ab ovo is a song of the margins, these images have no voice and no story, yet they are deeply rooted in our memory. Ab ovo is a lens through which we can look at our way of using language and narration, at our relationship with nature and objects, at the way we experience time and difference and marginality, and our sense of community. Cioni works at the intersection of painting, textiles and performance. Drawing is at the core of her practice, based on a feminist non-narrative approach.

Presented at Mimosa House, the exhibition is supported by the Italian Council, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture.