“La Forma Trattenuta” is the title of Stefano Caimi’s exhibition, presented within the offices of Volvo Studio Milano. There are landscapes that reveal themselves only when observed slowly. It is from this time of observation that Stefano Caimi’s project takes shape, built from images created between the Biblioteca degli Alberi and the surrounding urban fabric of Volvo Studio Milan, in a context where greenery is an active component of a complex, designed system.
Through technological tools and digital processing methods, Caimi breaks down and reorganizes data, images, and natural forms, translating them into essential scenarios. Technology functions as a device for reading: it does not add, but makes visible biological structures, rhythms, and relationships that are normally imperceptible. What emerges is a landscape that is not simply represented, but analyzed and reconstructed, as a space of continuous relationship between nature, design, and perception.
In this closely observed winter, nature never appears still. The unprecedented flowers photographed by Caimi—intensely colored, almost out of season—are captured at a threshold: as they wither, as they disintegrate, as their form begins to merge with the very substance of the image. They are not still lifes, but organisms in transformation, traversed by a force that persists even at the moment of decline. It is a silent resistance, typical of the plant world: plants do not oppose force, but endure.
In this suspended condition, Caimi’s works suggest scenarios that are not despotic but generative. Technology does not impose a form or an order, but intervenes to arrest the image at a precise point in its mutation. Botanical forms appear almost frozen, held between life and dissolution, like material traces of a present time in which resistance operates through the capacity to transform.
La Forma Trattenuta by Stefano Caimi
Vernissage on Thursday 29rd January at 7 pm
Opening event featuring a talk with the curator Rischa Paterlini
The exhibition will be on view every Saturday from 10am to 7pm, until 4th April 2026
More info at: info@viasaterna.com
@ Volvo Studio Milano
(Viale della liberazione corner Via Melchiorre Gioia)
REGISTER HERE FOR THE EVENT
Through technological tools and digital processing methods, Caimi breaks down and reorganizes data, images, and natural forms, translating them into essential scenarios. Technology functions as a device for reading: it does not add, but makes visible biological structures, rhythms, and relationships that are normally imperceptible. What emerges is a landscape that is not simply represented, but analyzed and reconstructed, as a space of continuous relationship between nature, design, and perception.
In this closely observed winter, nature never appears still. The unprecedented flowers photographed by Caimi—intensely colored, almost out of season—are captured at a threshold: as they wither, as they disintegrate, as their form begins to merge with the very substance of the image. They are not still lifes, but organisms in transformation, traversed by a force that persists even at the moment of decline. It is a silent resistance, typical of the plant world: plants do not oppose force, but endure.
In this suspended condition, Caimi’s works suggest scenarios that are not despotic but generative. Technology does not impose a form or an order, but intervenes to arrest the image at a precise point in its mutation. Botanical forms appear almost frozen, held between life and dissolution, like material traces of a present time in which resistance operates through the capacity to transform.
La Forma Trattenuta by Stefano Caimi
Vernissage on Thursday 29rd January at 7 pm
Opening event featuring a talk with the curator Rischa Paterlini
The exhibition will be on view every Saturday from 10am to 7pm, until 4th April 2026
More info at: info@viasaterna.com
@ Volvo Studio Milano
(Viale della liberazione corner Via Melchiorre Gioia)
REGISTER HERE FOR THE EVENT