Caterina De Pietri (ed. by)
You Can't Frame Me
Artphilein Editions, Lugano — 2026
Contributing artists: Veronica Barbato, Pietro Bologna, Sergey Bratkov, Danae Bulfone, Alessandra Calò, Simone Casetta, Gabriele Chiapparini, Carmen Colombo, Marco D'Anna, Aline d'Auria, Thiago Dezan, Matteo Di Giovanni, Vittoria Fragapane, Fiorella Iacono, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Sonia Lenzi, Luigi Lista, Sara Munari, Francesco Pennacchio, Igor Ponti, Katie Prock, Marco Rigamonti, Marcello Ruvidotti, Gian Marco Sanna, Giorgia Vanzolini, Alessandro Vicario
You Can’t Frame Me is the photobook produced in conjunction with the homonymous group exhibition, dedicated to the cat as both a real and symbolic presence. Through a selection of images by international artists, the book explores the cat in its primary essence: free, independent, at times elusive and at times complicit, capable of inhabiting domestic spaces and imaginaries with the same natural ease.
The book is accompanied by a critical text by philosopher Matteo Maria Paolucci, reflecting on the relationship between humans and animals, between gaze, proximity, and otherness. The volume unfolds as a heterogeneous archive of visual approaches, where the cat becomes subject, relationship, and threshold.
