Delphine Valli. The Impossible Present. Caleidoscopio

From September 25th to October 25th, 2025, BUILDING TERZO PIANO presents “The Impossible Present. Caleidoscopio”, a site-specific project by Delphine Valli curated by Melania Rossi, which brings together a series of unpublished works and photographs, texts and installations, in a multiplicity of media. The exhibition occurs two years after the publication of the book “The Impossible Present”, published by Parallelo42 Contemporary Art, on the occasion of the artist’s research residency in Marrakech, after her victory of the Grant Italian Council for Research in 2021. 

“The Impossible Present. Caleidoscopio” is presented as a multifaceted visual narrative, a layering of memories and an intertwining of art and life. The artistic residency in the red city at LE 18, a multidisciplinary cultural space located in the medina, was experienced by Delphine Valli (Champigny-sur-Marne, France, 1972) as a journey of reconnection with the Maghreb of her childhood, and with the visual culture in which she grew up until the age of sixteen which shaped her artistic sensibility.  

So, the aim of the exhibition is to give back in a multifaceted way the project collected in the book. At the same time, it offers an interpretation of the individual works made over time in light of the artist’s encounter with Islamic visual culture. Highlighting the most imperceptible aspects of the experience, “The Impossible Present. Caleidoscopio” plays on the constant relationship between the material and the immaterial, between memory, vision and creation.