After fleeing from a city that tired his very soul out, it is in the heart of the woods that Guido can find himself again: there he deeply listens to the nearby creatures, and learns how to let go of the weight of his darkest years, marked by the shadowy spiral of the relationship with his father. While among the trees, shards of memories resurface from his childhood, when his father, lost in his il

“Photograph the waves to preserve the memory of their words” “OHGREATSEA!YOU CREATE THATWHICH I SANG ABOUT AT THE BEGINNINGOH!, HORIZON OF EYES AND FLIGHTSOF SEAGULLS AND BURNING SUNS!PLACE OF PASSAGE OF THE CELESTIAL OF THE EVER FLATLUCKY ENCOUNTER OF STORMSOF SALTY WAVES AND MOONSFULL THAT FREEFLOW AWAY.AND I DIEI” These are the words the two photographers used to summarise their work: a series ofphotographs taken in faraway places. Ba

Design is optimistic by nature: it seeks to solve problems and, in doing so, create preferable conditions. Yet, the thinking behind it abounds with expressions of skepticism, dissatisfaction, and even resentment. Rather than being dismissed as anomalies, can these “sad passions” shed light on the blind spots of the discipline? Can disillusionment represent something more than mere disappointment? Can it, for example, translate into an emotional method for bringing dysfunctions and contradictions to light? Th

We humans are animals that tell stories, and culture is the result of our evolution. Novels, works of art, and music are not abstract “spiritual” elements disconnected from our physicality, but rather a feature of the material life of our species. We need an imagination that helps us break out of our species boundaries, an imagination that recognizes and gives voice to the whole world that we consider “other” but which is instea

Tesoro carissimo is the monograph dedicated to the work and research of Sara Basta, published by Viaindustriae and edited by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni.Titled after the eponymous exhibition hosted last year in the spaces of IUNO, the editorial project retraces the artist’s career, delving into some of the themes that inform her practice: the collective dimension, expressed both through the use of the workshop format and through the participatory creation of th