FRANCESCA BAGGIANI  Nom de Guerre

Francesca Gabbiani returns to Wilding Cran Gallery with Nom de Guerre, a multimedia exhibition exploring ceremonial healing, forbidden knowledge, oral history, and the intertwined legacies of plants, ritual, and resistance. Moving across encaustic painting, works on paper, and bronze sculpture, Gabbiani investigates how cultural knowledge survives through coded language, storytelling, and acts of transmission.

Inspired in part by her two-sided artist’s book Bible, the exhibition draws connections between plants associated with visionary ceremonies and those historically linked to fertility and reproductive autonomy. Layered wax surfaces, botanical imagery, and symbolic objects evoke histories that have endured despite suppression, positioning storytelling and ritual as powerful vessels for collective memory. Last running date: December 19, 2026.