Ex Elettrofonica is pleased to inaugurate, on Friday, 10 October 2025, the gallery’s first solo show featuring Julie Polidoro, Elsewhere is here.
The artist, who has long worked on the theme of cartography, now explores if there is another way to represent the earth that might encompass all the possible viewpoints of what is real. This led to a proliferation of new inquiries produced by dismembering, cutting, weaving, and folding a canvas, betraying its two-dimensionality to become sculpture.
Conquering the third dimension is imperative for visually translating emptiness, which inhabits the world just like fullness, creating the conditions for representing movement, living, humanity in transformation.

While the work of a cartographer involves documenting morphological reality or a system of agreements and divisions historicised over time, Julie Polidoro’s maps seek traces that can speak to a common territory, beyond the rifts of nationality and cultural identity. The artist believes that “The more human thinking separates the issues of each country, the more the earth is fragilized”, and her maps express a desire to integrate and relate, to regain a circularity where everything is linked and connected.
The title of the exhibit, Elsewhere is here, should thus be taken as a rejection of indifference, highlighting the short-sightedness of those who feel distant, and safe, from what happens elsewhere.

Julie Polidoro (1970), has lived in Rome, Paris, New York, Hong Kong. She has exhibited in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. She currently lives and works in Rome. Her most recent solo shows include: 2026 Set design and exhibit EN SICILE, Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne; 2024 TODAY IS TOMORROW’S YESTERDAY, Dicastero del Vaticano, Rome; 2024 SOCIAL DISTANCE, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; 2023 L’ARIA CHE RESPIRO NON HA CONFINI, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris; 2019 DA DOVE VENGO, Galleria Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile; 2019 TERRA COME MARE, Atelier, Museo MACRO, Rome; 2018 DAPPERTUTTO SUCCEDE QUALCOSA, Associazione Barriera, Turin. Group exhibitions include: 2025, MIGRATIONS ET CLIMATS, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris; 2024 CHAQUE VIE EST UNE HISTOIRE: 20 ANS D’ACQUISITION DU MUSÉE NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’IMMIGRATION, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris; 2024 MIGRATIONS, UNE ODYSSÉE HUMAINE, Musée de l’Homme, Paris; 2022 [RE] RETOUR DE BABEL, Galeries Nei Liicht & Dominique Lang, Dudelange, Luxembourg; 2019 TEMPI PIEGATI with Gosia Turzeniecka, Museo Felice Casorati, Pavarolo; 2018 ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY ART OF CROSS-CULTURAL VISION, Fenghuang Museum, China; 2018 DEVIATIONS, 2018, Musée Bargoin, Clermond-Ferrand.