Brash, impetuous, sunny, cultured, surprising, annoying, sharp as a wodoo pin and soft as a baba. Francesca Alfano Miglietti is all this and much more. So bulky that she seems to swallow all the space around her (her forty years of research into the concept of the body in art cannot be accidental!), and yet as defiladed and tiny as a wren as she narrates the extraordinary works co-opted at her exhibitions. Capable of overwhelming you with words or smoking in silence for a time that seems endless. Ready to shatter the air with a loud laugh, like an irredeemable smoker, or to modulate her voice into a rough whisper to express the most uncomfortable thoughts.

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