WILHELMINA MERANTE & LEYLA RIGGIO
WORKS

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• Shelf Paintings

Metal Paintings
Rhythmic Woods
Communal Tools
Silver Saints

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Wilhelmina Merante + Leyla Riggio is an artist duo based in Milan. After more than a decade of collaboration across various projects and identities (Dafne, BB5000, The Garden), they formalized their joint practice in 2025. Their work spans sculpture, painting, and multimedia, with a consistent focus on the relationship between form, material, and symbolic resonance.

Their practice investigates how matter can embody concepts of collective experience, emotional weight, and spiritual presence. Materials such as metal and wood are approached not only for their physical properties, but as vessels of cultural, historical, and affective significance. Their works often emerge through processes of repetition, tension, and variation producing forms that oscillate between structural clarity and poetic suggestion. Their artistic language is both restrained and evocative, drawing on craft traditions, architectural references, and abstract symbolism. 




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COMMUNAL TOOLSCommunal Tools introduces a group of sculptural objects imagined for collective use—tools conceived not for the individual, but for a plurality. 
Drawing from the origins of arts and crafts, these altered implements evoke shared effort and mutual dependence.

Reimagined as symbolic instruments of communal fatigue, they transform the notion of labor into a gesture of connection—where the act of struggling together becomes a form of resistance and a way to generate meaning through solidarity.