The hollow men is the exhibition specially designed for the Project Space of Palazzo Strozzi by the Italian artist Giulia Cenci and curated by the General Director of the Foundation, Arturo Galansino.

In her practice, Giulia Cenci works with elements taken from everyday life and the industrial world, transforming them into imaginary landscapes and habitats where scraps, remains, and recycled materials blend with hybrid figures between human and animal. Her works challenge hierarchies and boundaries, proposing scenarios in which each element seems to oscillate between recognizability and alteration.

At Palazzo Strozzi, through a site-specific project that combines sculpture, installation, and drawing, Giulia Cenci offers a vision populated by figures and structures that seem to belong to a suspended time. The title references the eponymous 1925 poem by T. S. Eliot, in which the hollow men are inert figures, in a limbo between life and death, unable to act or redeem themselves after the drama of the First World War. Giulia Cenci's "hollow men" become a metaphor to reflect on the fragilities and contradictions of the human condition, between natural and artificial, past and present, memory and oblivion.

With this exhibition, Palazzo Strozzi inaugurates the Project Space, a new exhibition space dedicated to emerging art and conceived as a dynamic platform for experimentation and research in the heart of Florence. Accessible directly from the courtyard, this environment is integrated into the Foundation's programming, alongside the spaces of the Piano Nobile, the Courtyard, and the Strozzina, offering a new context within the palace for projects aimed at fostering new opportunities for artistic production and dialogue with the public.