After participating in the 59th Venice Art Biennale, French artist Anne-Cécile Surga returns to Italy with a diary carved in marble and metal. A deeply introspective project, the result of five years of artistic research, which invites us to immerse ourselves in an intimate and sculptural landscape: that of a woman who, in adulthood, discovers her autism.

Each sculpture is the result of a slow process, which began in 2020 and matured during the pandemic, when isolation opened the door to inner exploration. Observation of the external landscape—the undergrowth of Ariège, kiwi vines, eucalyptus branches, brambles, and clematis of the Grande Corne—offered Anne-Cécile Surga forms and metaphors of resistance, intertwining with urgent and often invisible social issues: the specificity of female autism, still poorly understood and often hidden behind coping strategies, as well as the frequent reality of late or missed diagnoses.

With an essential layout, designed in dialogue with the artist's sensibility and in accordance with a path of eco-sustainability, the exhibition is part of a broader reflection on inclusion, sensoriality, and the recognition of the invisible aspects of subjectivity.

The space that hosts Sous la peau le tremblement also takes on meaning. The Institut français Milano is the reference point for French culture in Milan and Lombardy and, since 1997, has been located in the prestigious Palazzo delle Stelline, opposite the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie and Leonardo da Vinci's famous Last Supper.