Allison Grimaldi Donahue - The Mole and The Moon

The Mole and the Moon is a fictional text commissioned on the occasion of Permanently Shadowed, Emilia Estrada’s solo exhibition at Cantadora (Rome), and published as an editorial extension of the exhibition. Emerging from a linguistic slippage — the term mole shifting across English and Spanish meanings — Allison Grimaldi Donahue develops a narrative that moves between surface and subterranean, translation and misalignment, orientation and disorientation, in close dialogue with Estrada’s practice.

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Allison Grimaldi Donahue is a writer and artist based in Bologna. She is the author of The History of Breathing (Diaphanes, 2025), Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016), and On Endings (Delere Press, 2019), and a translator of works by Vito M. Bonito and Carla Lonzi. Her works have been presented at institutions including the Guggenheim Venice, Cabaret Voltaire, Kunsthalle Bern, MACRO, and MAMbo. She teaches creative writing at American universities.