Nicolás Leong
Recent Work, in Context

The Los Angeles–based artist Nicolás Leong will discuss his recent photographic explorations in and around Rome, and how they relate to his previous and ongoing efforts to picture the world.

Nicholás Leong is the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts.

Virginia Virilli
Women

The Rome-based writer Virginia Virilli will read extracts from her book Le ossa del Gabibbo (Feltrinelli, 2012) and from her theater plays to show how a recurring theme, “woman” in this case, is frequently growing along with the author.

Virginia Virilli is the Italian Fellow in literature.

The shoptalks will be held in English.