© Ilaria Carli Paris
HABITUS
Opening: 2 April 2026, 18:00
Exhibition Details:
Habitus is a painting exhibition by Ilaria Carli Pàris that reflects on how personal experiences take form through the body, gestures, and everyday actions. Drawing on the sociological concept of habitus, the works consider what we carry with us — emotionally and physically — and how inner states become visible on the surface of our lives. Moving between self-representation and autofiction, the paintings translate specific moments, crises, and transformations from the artist’s life into visual narratives. Figures, garments, and objects function as carriers of experience, blurring the boundary between intimacy and the outside world.
Created on stretched paper, a material both fragile and resistant, the works unfold as chapters within a cyclical narrative of experience. The paintings approach time not as linear progress, but as a sequence of returning states and transformations that shape how the self moves through the world.
Join us for the opening on 2 April at 18:00 and step into Habitus.
Free entry, all welcome!
Special Program:
As the opening falls during Easter week, there will be an additional Midissage on Thursday, 9 April 2026, at 6 p.m. During the evening, artists Charlotte Aurich, Marko Zink and I will talk about the works on display. A small booklet will also be distributed that evening.
Featuring:
Ilaria Carli Pàris (*1986 in Asiago, IT) lives and works in Vienna. Her artistic research explores the beauty of movement, understood as a primary condition of existence that resides in everything and as an inner flow, giving us vital impetus. In these works, created by fixing paper stretched directly onto a frame, movement undergoes a process of visual and structural freezing. The presence of the human figure in some series takes on a meaning of warmth: it is a portal for reconnecting the self to its physical dwelling. Her work was featured in numerous exhibitions including Cermodern, Ankara (TR), Vienna Art Week, West Space, (AT), Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Vienna (AT), Atelier Grundsteingasse, Vienna (AT), Sala DEPOSITO 51, Vicenza (IT), CSC, San Vito Di Leguzzano (IT), g7, Vienna (AT), SocialContainer, Camporovere (IT), and ATELIER B, Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice (IT).