A Deep Glimpse
A DEEP GLIMPSE
Final Exhibition – 2° Year in Painting & Digital Art
Artwork by: Gerta Hameli, Aalma Lumière, Sancha, and Tristan d’Orgeval
A collaboration: Accademia di Como & Careof Milano
Vernissage: May 27, 6:30–8:00 pm
Opening hours: May 28–29, 10:00 am–7:00 pm
From May 25 to 29, 2026, Careof will host A Deep Glimpse — Final Exhibition; 2nd Year in Painting & Digital Art, featuring works by students from Accademia di Como Aldo Galli: Gerta Hameli, Aalma Lumière, Sancha, and Tristan d’Orgeval.
At the conclusion of their MA programme, the students present their latest projects through paintings, multimedia installations, and participatory works.
Starting from their own biographies and previous experiences, each student has developed, throughout the two-year course, a distinct visual language and field of research, here tested for the first time within an exhibition environment. All of the projects investigate social constraints while imagining new possibilities for generating forms of deviation and resistance to what is socially and culturally imposed by contemporary society.
In Do Tell and throughout the body of works presented, Gerta Hameli goes deep into the oneiric dimension and intimate social circle of her Kosovar community. Across generations and stories, dreams have formed a shared symbolic language. These works ask how telling preserves, transforms, and binds us together.
In Becoming Bodily, Sancha investigates the transcending experience of the birth of a new being. Through queer visual storytelling the spectator is invited to step into this new non-human world of the Fems, an ambiguous cyber world that rethinks our human modes of living.
Tristan d’Orgeval leads us into a universe of sketches, fleeting images, and repetitive sounds — ephemeral yet invasive at the same time. In Cabinet of Couriosity and Fool’s Ballad, he explores multiple personalities shaped by weakness, uncertainty, fear, and tenderness, attempting to respond to the normative structures imposed by society.
Aalma Lumière operates on a more intimate scale. Drawing from an identity crisis, the artist explores the fragmentation of the self and its vulnerabilities, placing human relationships and interaction at the core. The audience is thus invited to take an active part in the artwork through play, shared experience, and personal reflection.
What emerges is an intensity of diverse approaches - at times in dialogue, at others in contrast - stemming from the urgencies each student has chosen to explore within their own artistic journey. The works form part of the final projects that the students will present during their graduation sessions.
Conceived by Marta Bianchi, course coordinator and member of Careof, the initiative aims to bridge academic training and professional artistic practice. It offers students the opportunity to directly confront the demands, nuances, and limitations involved in producing work within an exhibition context.
Special thanks to the Direction of Accademia di Como Aldo Galli and to all the staff - especially Jana Mangundayao, Giordana Ingrassia, and the MA faculty in Painting & Digital Art: especially Martina Angelotti and Giacomo Raffaelli among Arianna Baldoni, Lupo Borgonovo, Sandra Cane, Giulia Civardi, Gianfranco Lacchin, Tamara Ferioli, Federica Gattillo, Davide Savorani, and Ema Stefanovska.
Biographies
Aalma Lumière
Aalma Lumière (Bagno a Ripoli, 2000) is a multimedia artist whose research combines painting, installation, and writing. Her practice originates from an identity crisis that led her to shift from aspiring lawyer to artist, triggering a deep investigation into the complexity of identity and the fragmentation of the self.
She is currently completing an MA in Painting and Digital Arts at Accademia Aldo Galli in Como and is further exploring the therapeutic dimension of art through the Master’s programme in Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Padua. Her interest in fragility and relational dynamics has led her to collaborate with Farmacia Wurmkos, a horizontal artistic cohabitation project involving artists and people experiencing mental distress.
In 2025, she participated in the Open Studio curated by Careof at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan and was selected for a group exhibition at Spazio Natta in Como. Alongside her visual practice, she maintains an ongoing literary production. Her texts have been published in Collana Poetica I Poeti di Ponte Vecchio (Dantebus, 2024), in the fifth edition of the Premio Nazionale La Botteguccia delle Favole (GD Edizioni, 2024), and in the anthology Tra le Alpi e i Laghi. Storie di Piemonte e Lombardia (Rudis Edizioni, 2025). She is a member of Art Workers Italia and of the GAI – Giovani Artisti Italiani network.
Gerta Hameli
Gerta Hameli (b. 2001, Prizren, Kosovo) is a visual artist. Moving between Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Italy during her childhood strongly shaped her artistic practice.
Her research explores dreams as social events that gain meaning when shared, interpreted, and transmitted within a community. She expresses these themes through muted colours and across figurative painting, video, and assemblage.
She holds a BA in Fine Arts – Painting from the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina” and is currently completing an MA in Painting and Digital Art at Accademia Aldo Galli in Como.
Her first solo exhibition took place in October 2024 at the Social Cultural Space Tetova. Her work has also been featured in several group exhibitions in Milan, Como, Turin, Tirana, Prishtina, Tetova, and in university exhibitions.
Sancha
Sancha (b. 2002, Lisbon, Portugal) is a non-binary artist and designer whose practice explores themes of gender, care, and sexuality, focusing on the relationship between the collective and the individual body. Working across multiple media and using colourful figurative imagery, they seek to explore the lives of non-human creatures through storytelling and worldbuilding, using these as ways to metaphorise and rethink alternative modes of living.
They hold a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from the Higher School of Arts and Design (ESAD) in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal and are currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Painting and Digital Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Como, Italy.
In 2025, Sancha participated in an Open Studio at Fabbrica del Vapore and presented the solo exhibition The Specimen at Subplace Milano. In 2024, they curated and participated in their first collective exhibition, Corpa Sentida, and later took part in ÂNCIA, a collective intervention within the permanent collection of the José Malhoa Museum, both in Caldas da Rainha.
Tristan d’Orgeval
It was during school years that Tristan d’Orgeval’s creative energy first emerged. Unable to concentrate within traditional academic structures, pens and notebooks became a temporary escape from imposed discipline. Over time, this necessity evolved into broader artistic research combining writing and drawing across di erent media.
His is obsessed with drafts, which he considers raw traces of his innermost thoughts. His hyperactivity is also shaped by exposure to social media and the constant flow of digital content. Fascinated and overwhelmed by chaotic online culture, he increasingly attempts to stage the forms of intimacy produced within these networks. Across its many forms, his work seeks to stage intimacy – whether exposed, fragmented, or concealed.
Tristan grew up in Paris, before completing his Bachelor at University College London. His recent exhibitions, in Paris, include a solo show at l’Atelier Jeanne Dumont (Paris, 2025), and two collective exhibits (at La Maison de la Conversation and Wilde Le Lieu, with Artenae, 2026).
