iLa Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)Pinciano
Over 200 photographs by fashion duo Luigi & Iango exploring the body as a surface for desire, conflict, vulnerability and transformation, examining identity and the human figure in contemporary visual culture.
More than 200 photographs, with unpublished images hung beside well-known ones, by a duo with over 300 fashion magazine covers behind them. Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi have shot Madonna, Rihanna and Cate Blanchett, but they told Icon the Rome show is the more intimate part of their work: less-known pictures of "powerful and courageous people, each with an important story".
Curator Francesca Alfano Miglietti built it around the body as a "political, poetic and symbolic space", and the museum's text runs from reportage to quieter, compassionate portraits. Performers and dancers sit alongside the stars, Amanda Lepore among them. If you know them from the newsstand, the museum points you elsewhere: fragments, gestures and hard contrasts of light and shadow that break up the figure.
The museum's page lists the show as included in the €17 gallery ticket, not free as first announced. Under-18s go free, as does everyone on 1 and 4 November with booking. Tuesday to Sunday 9am to 7pm; Thursdays to 11pm (€10) until 17 December.
Under-18s get into the gallery free.