PCAI is pleased to announce the participation of PCAI Collection artist Agnieszka Polska in the group exhibition Open, presented at Palazzo Buontalenti in Florence, Italy.
Developed in dialogue with the research project Measuring the Invisible Economy by Johanna Gautier-Morin, Open explores economic life through its productive, reproductive, and destructive dimensions.
The exhibition creates a conversation between social science research and contemporary visual art. The shared intent is to make visible and open to questioning those processes, practices, and forms of value that classical economics has historically marginalised: the often invisible yet essential foundations that sustain our collective survival and flourishing, such as domestic care work, informal transactions, and the asymmetric extraction of natural resources.
Spread across the indoor and outdoor spaces of Palazzo Buontalenti, home to the EUI’s Florence School of Transnational Governance, the Open exhibition invites visitors to reflect on four key concepts: Gleaning, Exhhaustion, Irreversibility and Mutation.
Agnieska Polka at Open will present the Braudel Clocks, which destabilise linear chronology.
Curated by: Sergio Risaliti and Stefania Rispoli
11 May – 12 Oct 2026
Read more here.
Photo credit: Elisa Norcini
Activity aligned with Goals 1, 3, 4,7, 8,9,10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17
