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October 2026

Presentation Wednesday November 4th, 7 pm,

At the Still Point, by Heike Baranowsky. Published by Distanz Verlag. Heike Baranowsky in conversation with Chiara Capodici. In collaboration with German Academy Rome Villa Massimo

What does it mean to experience time? How do images generate reality? Where in the visible does the invisible reside? Heike Baranowsky’s works explore light phenomena, motion sequences, spatial constellations, and architectonic structures. Her videos, sculptures, cyanotypes, and photographic series are based on painstaking observation, conceptual elegance, and probing reflections on time, space, and perception. At the Still Point documents Baranowsky’s oeuvre, gathering central sets of works and methodological approaches from t
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October 2026

On the road Wednesday 11- Sunday 15 November,

Leporello at Polycopies

This year, too, we are happy to be back at Polycopies, our favourite boat on the river. For this edition we have prepared a selection, as always, with a focus on Italian photography, and we have organized not only book signings with a number of authors, but also opportunities to meet wonderful publishers and curators whose work we have long admired, and who will spend a few hours behind the table with us to ta
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October 2026

Presentation Wednesday, November 25th, 7 pm,

Portraits and Places
, Steve Turtell, with photographs by Peter Hujar
. Published by Palermo Publishing. Reading and conversation with Steve Turtell and Giulia Crispiani


Leporello hosts the presentation of Portraits and Places. Steve Turtell, poet, writer and friend of Peter Hujar, will read from his autobiographical essays and discuss them with Giulia Crispiani. The book brings together six intimate essays offering a personal view of a New York that, fifty years on, feels both vivid and distant. From the first Gay Pride march to Frank Zappa's thirtieth birthday party, to the end of a cherished friendship w
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October 2026

Friday, November 27th, 7 pm,

Alexis De Bonis, Chronology of Love — on Dario Bellezza. Reading and display of printed matter. Part of USCITA festival

After two months in Rome as part of a residency supported by the Goethe-Institut, curator Alexis de Bonis presents Chronology of Love — on Dario Bellezza. Somewhere between storytelling and research, the project takes the literary work of Dario Bellezza as its starting point to explore the relationships between language, translation and the act of loving. Through the play of quotation, Chronology of Love — on Dario Bellezza traces an intertextual genealogy that sets his writing in
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October 2026

ExhibitionPresentation Thursday, December 3rd, 7 pm,

​​Valentino Barachini and Alexandre Christiaens, Gran Mare, published by Grani edizioni. PROSA Contemporanea and Leporello

PROSA Contemporanea and Leporello photobooks et al. are hosting an exhibition together for the first time. The two spaces are linked by the works of Alexandre Christiaens and Valentino Barachini, connected to the book Gran Mare, published by Grani edizioni. At the opening of the exhibition, the two artists will present the book at PROSA Contemporanea. “Photograph the waves to preserve the memory of their words” “OH GREA
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October 2026

Exhibition Friday 16 October, 6 pm,

Transumando, by Claudia Mann – Enoteca Vigneto, part of City Ravioli festival

Following the exhibition opening there will be a talk with producer Virginia Sciore on sustainable farming and the tradition of transhumance, and a tasting of goat cheeses from Abruzzo,produced by the farm Alla Casa Vecchia in Pacentro (AQ). "Transhumance lets you walk on green ground for over thirty kilometres, and it's one of those things that has gone on for so many centuries that what makes no sense is to stop." – Valerio
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