Alessandro Magliani's paintings depict organic, almost bodily forms that behave like glass, bending and refracting light with physical precision, yet impossible to place in any real space. Each work begins in clay, shaped by hand, before being digitised, developed in a virtual environment, and finally rendered in oil. Traces of every stage survive in the finished image.

These transparent forms have no presence of their own. They become visible only against the grounds that surround them, borrowing light, taking on colour, and defined entirely by their context. The paintings suggest, without insisting, that identity works in a similar way, not fixed but continuously shaped by everything around it.