What Looks at Me is the first major museum retrospective in Italy dedicated to the artist Miriam Cahn, curated by the museum's artistic director Cristiana Perrella, promoted by the Culture Department of Roma Capitale and the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, and produced and organised by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo.
Born in Basel in 1949, Miriam Cahn is today recognised as one of the most urgent and necessary voices in international contemporary art. Her work, predominantly painting, drawing and pastel, spans more than fifty years of research with a rare ethical and formal consistency: the human body, violence, desire, vulnerability and war form the central nuclei of a practice that rejects every aestheticisation of pain and every compromise. Despite the growing international attention of recent years – from the Venice Biennale Arte to retrospectives at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid – a broad synthesis in an Italian institution was still lacking until now.