SI Reading Room | Costanza Candeloro and Licit Illicit Bookshop: No Plot, Just Street

Sep 30 2025 - Jan 04 2026

About Costanza Candeloro

Costanza Candeloro (b. 1990, Bologna, Italy) graduated in 2014 from the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva, Switzerland. Recent solo exhibitions include Tout le temps de vie est temps de travail at Sihl Delta, Zurich (2024); Possessed is The Style at Ausstellungsraum Friedensgasse, Zurich (2024); C&G at Istituto Svizzero, Milan (2023); ENVY & GRATITUDE at Martina Simeti, Milan (2022); My Skin-care, My Strength at ICA Milano (2022); and Sweet Days of Discipline at La Plage, Paris (2022). In 2025, she will have a solo show at CEC Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at MUSEION, Bolzano (2024); Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2023); La Rada, Locarno (2023); Sitterwerk Art Library and Material Archive, St. Gallen (2021); and Tunnel Tunnel, Lausanne (2021); among others.

About Licit Illicit Bookshop

Licit Illicit Bookshop is a project by Costanza Candeloro and Francesca Ciccone that explores the connection between rarity and radicality. The catalogue includes feminist theory, queer and postcolonial studies, anti-psychiatry, literature, poetry, and more.

Image: Costanza Candeloro, An Urban Sketch from an Artist, 2025