Won’t Be Tamed - June 5th - July 5th
A duo exhibition by Alessia Lupo Cecchet & Marijke de Pous
Thrilled to announce my upcoming duo exhibit in Aosta! The exhibit is the result of an inspiring collaboration with Alessia Lupo Cecchet, joint second prize winner of the Alte Arte competition organised by Alina Art Foundation.
It has been a joy to work with Alessia in the run up to this exhibition and I look forward to preparing the exhibit together on site. Alessia is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist working at the intersection of studio and media arts. For Won’t be Tamed she will present work that investigate historical memory and human violence through an engagement with geological bodies.
My own contribution to the exhibit comprises a selection of works on paper from my Choreographies of Power (2024) and Paperweight (2024) series, the video installation ‘These Papers Were Mountains, These Embers Were Ashes (2025), and a site specific installation in resonates with my own and Alessia’s work.
Artists: Alessia Lupo Cecchet, Marijke de Pous
Opening: June 5, 2025 – 6:00 PM
Dates: June 5 – July 5, 2025
Venue: Inarttendu Gallery, Via Martinet 6, Aosta – Italy
Admission: Free
Exhibition text
“There is a border – thin, sharp, fertile – where art meets the unspeakable. An interior and at the same time political territory, where one does not ask permission to exist. It is on this ridge that “WON’T BE TAMED” moves, the two-person exhibition of the artists Alessia Lupo Cecchet and Marijke de Pous, joint winners of the second prize at ArteAlta 2024, organized by Alina Art Foundation and hosted by the Inarttendu Cultural Association in Aosta from 5th of June to 5th of July 2025.
Won’t Be Tamed is not just a double solo exhibit: it is a composition of two voices, the result of a profound desire for interaction, towards an act of artistic sisterhood. The two joint winners of the second ArteAlta 2024 prize, promoted by Alina Art Foundation with Inarttendu, do not stand side by side: they intertwine. And in doing so they give the public a powerful, emotionally exposed and culturally defiant experience.
Born out of the ArteAlta experience in the Italian Alps, WON’T BE TAMED is both a collaboration and a statement. Rather than simply sharing a space, it is a composition of two voices showing new work, the result of a profound desire for interaction, almost an act of artistic sisterhood. The exhibition spans multiple media — video, photography, installation, performance, drawing, and sculpture —forming a rich emotional landscape.
“Won’t be tamed” – is already a statement in itself. In a world that seeks to discipline, control and categorize, Cecchet and de Pous choose complexity, cracks, oscillations. Their exhibition spans multiple media — video, photography, installation, performance, drawing, and sculpture —forming a rich emotional landscape.
Inarttendu – already a point of reference for contemporary art in Aosta – reaffirms itself through this exhibition, not only as an exhibition space, but also as a space for questioning. After the experience of ArteAlta, which was able to bring artistic creation into dialogue with Alpine identity, “WON’T BE TAMED” relaunches the challenge: to tell of what escapes, what resists, what remains untamed.
Because, let’s face it: even art, in Valle d’Aosta, sometimes risks being forced into cages that are too narrow. We need art that is not afraid to contaminate, to shout, to embrace doubt. “WON’T BE TAMED” is an exhibition, but also a manifesto. Simultaneously an artistic and political gesture. A call to those who create and those who engage to celebrate all that is wild and powerfully vulnerable. Because artistic expression, like the mountain, like memory, like the body, like pain, cannot and will not be tamed. “
Sanda Sudor
Luciano Seghesio
