Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata welcomes Nidaa Badwan's site-specific theatrical shots

Until March 30, 2025, the piano nobile of the Civic Museums of Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata hosts the exhibition The Saving Light by Nidaa Badwan, a Palestinian artist living in Italy and winner of the seventh edition of the Pannaggi/Nuova Generazione 2024 Prize, an award created with the intention of giving space to young emerging artists under 40 in the Marche Region.

The solo exhibition consists of site-specific photographs that the artist has created by imagining a dialogue with Palazzo Buonaccorsi, a place she calls “of the spirit, imbued with personal events, history, magic and symbols.” Indeed, the theatrical component of Nidaa Badwan’s work emerges in these shots, an exclusive mise en scène through which the secret of self and the world around us is revealed. The halls of the palace are filled with images that revive the splendor of times past, memories of the spaces and humanity that lived there, in a perfect balance between memory and modernity. Light, spiritual and salvific, is the protagonist of other series made over the years by the artist, which are on display in the exhibition to testify to his decades-long journey: Rebirth is the most recent cycle, also from 2024, where light is the absolute protagonist; in Dark Nights of the Soul from 2020, the artist depicts himself as a fallen angel who must transcend his human nature in order to fly away from darkness; finally, One Hundred Days of Solitude of 2016 is the work that brought Badwan to notoriety, the story of a voluntary exile to denounce the abuses of power, a peaceful and silent struggle that draws its strength from the saturated colors and light captured by his shots.

Nidaa Badwan, class of 1987 born in Abu Dhabi and raised in Gaza, has been living in the Marche region for the past decade and has elected photography as her medium of expression. In her self-shots she narrates the world around her through a personal style rich in color.

“Her photographic production is constantly evolving, and her works have toured and are currently touring the world with focused projects that pay homage to Italian culture, while others of an introspective and psychological nature become powerful prospecting devices to penetrate into the depths of the human soul,” explains curator Paola Ballesi. “But beyond the various themes addressed, his research through the medium of photography presents an unequivocal stylistic constant that makes his language unique and unmistakable: the representation of the body as theater.”

The exhibition has the patronage of the University of Macerata, the Academy of Fine Arts and the City of Recanati.

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6:30 p.m.

Free admission.

Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata welcomes Nidaa Badwan's site-specific theatrical shots

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