Birds with a Broken Heart

For the first solo exhibition in Italy by poet and artist Roberta Marrero (1972–2024), Camera Doppia has invited Jermaine Gallacher to create a site-
specific exhibition design that mimics a domestic space, enhancing both the fragility and the political commitment of her work. Over nearly two decades, Marrero has developed an extensive body of work on paper spanning visual poetry, drawing, and collage, rooted in her experience in Madrid’s nightlife scene and her trans identity.
Using a form of bricolage and confessional poetics, she explores desire, religion, political resistance, and the iconography of power, while refusing any pre-constituted identity or artistic category.

The exhibition brings together twenty collages (2014–2023), merging the autobiographical with the imaginary and pop iconography to address gender, homoeroticism, belief, and desire. Iconic figures are re-signified within a queer, trans, and iconoclastic aesthetic. Gallacher’s installation, conceived as a layered assemblage of heterogeneous elements, echoes Marrero’s method and expressive language.