Exhibition The Right to Look

A two-person exhibition by Manuela Lalic and Victor Piverno

Late Studio Society, Madrid

PHotoEspaña colateral event

June–July 2025

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Borrowing its title from Nicholas Mirzoeff’s visual manifesto, The Right to Look is not about passive viewing—it’s an insurgent act. In this exhibition, Lalic and Piverno challenge the structures of visibility and perception through large-scale, mostly in-situ installations.

 

Straw fused with fiberglass, fractured frames, silicone skins—the materials don’t hold the image. They are the image.

 

Lalic reworks the leftovers of domestic capitalism; Piverno peels the skin off architecture. Their works resist simulation and coherence. They fold, rupture, and leak.

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There’s no frame, no center. Just residue, friction, and the demand to feel.

 

This is not a show to look at from afar. It’s a space to cross—a surface that looks back.