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Costanza Candeloro at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine

Solo Show «Different kinds of wants», September 18 until November 7, 2025

Artists

Costanza Candeloro

Institutions

Centre d’édition contemporaine Genève, Centre d’édition contemporaine

Location

Geneva

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Exhibition View Solo Show Costanza Candeloro «Different kinds of wants» at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2025 / Photo: Guillaume Python / Courtesy: the artist and Centre d’Édition Contemporaine

Costanza Candeloro's works, informed by intellectual, poetic, and literary references, develop like stages in a thought process in motion. Between life and work, body and image, production and reproduction, this movement deconstructs the internal hierarchies of signs and identifications. The artist's practice involves the circulation, dissemination, and transition from one medium to another, creating conditions for active and open reception.

For her first solo exhibition in a Swiss institution, Costanza Candeloro presents a coherent collection of new works produced for the occasion, as well as an edition of five printed ceramics. In "Different kinds of wants," she alters seemingly innocuous objects and picks apart the illusory anchoring of value in things. Through her reworking of shoes, jumpers, scratch cards, and cosmetics, the artist condemns the mechanisms of seduction of supposedly unique products, blending the techniques of art with those of commerce.

Costanza Candeloro, born in 1990 in Bologna, Italy, lives and works in Paris. She graduated from HEAD (Geneva University of Art and Design) in 2020 and is represented by the Martina Simeti Gallery in Milan. The artist will open an exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York at the end of September 2025. Her recent exhibitions include various shows in Zurich, Milan, and Paris. Together with Francesca Ciccone, she runs Licit Illicit Bookshop, a mobile book platform exploring the connections between rarity and radicalism.

The exhibition is supported by the Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Foundation, the Department of Culture and Digital Transition of the City of Geneva, The Loterie Romande, and a private Geneva foundation.

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Exhibition View Solo Show Costanza Candeloro «Different kinds of wants ; view on Glam Proof, ed. of the Centre d’édition contemporaine» at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2025 / Photo: Guillaume Python / Courtesy: the artist and Centre d’Édition Contemporaine

Exhibition View Solo Show Costanza Candeloro «Different kinds of wants ; view on Reduction, CEC, 2025» at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2025 / Photo: Guillaume Python / Courtesy: the artist and Centre d’Édition Contemporaine

Exhibition View Solo Show Costanza Candeloro «Different kinds of wants ; view on Reduction (Detail), CEC, 2025» at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2025 / Photo: Guillaume Python / Courtesy: the artist and Centre d’Édition Contemporaine

Exhibition View Solo Show Costanza Candeloro «Different kinds of wants ; view on Re-Assembled Fortune (détail), CEC, 2025» at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2025 / Photo: Guillaume Python / Courtesy: the artist and Centre d’Édition Contemporaine

Exhibition View Solo Show Costanza Candeloro «Different kinds of wants ; view on De-Evaluation, CEC, 2025» at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2025 / Photo: Guillaume Python / Courtesy: the artist and Centre d’Édition Contemporaine

Exhibition View Solo Show Costanza Candeloro «Different kinds of wants ; view on Expectation / Access, CEC, 2025» at Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2025 / Photo: Guillaume Python / Courtesy: the artist and Centre d’Édition Contemporaine