A curation by Giulia Falcone, Founder & Director || Curator • Advisor • Critic • Mentor at ARTOVERPASS - Matter holds within itself a silent tension, generated by the encounter between compression, resistance, and transformation. Nothing appears completely stable: density and pressure act as invisible forces that continually shape form, creating ever-temporary balances. The surface becomes the point where these energies become perceptible, revealing a structure that retains the weight of time and the memory of its own formation. In the works collected in Mineral Tension, matter manifests itself as a compact and stratified organism, capable of simultaneously expressing strength and curiosity. A solid presence, traversed by profound tensions that continually redefine its identity.