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February 2025

Presentation Wednesday February 26th, 7 pm,

Almanac of forgotten memories, by Federico Possati, published by Leporello books and Skinnerboox

Federico Possati’s book was born out of a necessity to give meaning and weight to an ever-growing pile of images, an obsessive catalog of small treasures found in everyday life. Using the structure of an uncommon diary, images, and text come together creating a narrative that continues throughout its 365(-ish) pages. Like a diary, the book is divided into 12 chapters, but unlike a classical diary, each chapter recalls a month taken fr

February 2025

Presentation Thursday March 6th, 7 pm,

Romanzo Meticcio, by Davide Degano, published by Artphilein Editions

How can contemporary Italian identity be defined? Romanzo Meticcio examines the post-colonial condition of Italy as a fundamental element of contemporary life in the Bel Paese.In Davide Degano’s research, the prefix “post” takes on a progressive historical value. The project establishes a link between the present, the colonial past, and the intranational and international waves of migration, inviting a critical attitude towards the imperialist and fascist legacies o

February 2025

Presentation Wednesday March 12, 7 pm,

Frankenstein – If You Love Solitude, You Don’t Love Freedom, by OHT – Office for a Human Theatre, published by bruno

OHT closes the project on Frankenstein with a publication that brings together Filippo Andreatta’s research and travels as he retraces the creature’s favorite places and locations. A book that presents itself as a monstrous object: grafted between the pages of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley appear the stage forms and materials produced by OHT’s encounter with the novel. They are flaps, fragments, scraps of works whose life takes place elsewhere and which her

February 2025

ExhibitionPresentation Friday March 14th, 7 pm,

Luna 10 yearsby Lele Saveri

Luna is an ongoing zine project by photographer Lele Saveri, self-published on the occasion of every full moon since October 2014. Luna 10 Years reproduces chronologically selections of all 124 zines made through October 2024 marking the series’ tenth anniversary. The selected images document Saveri’s experiences, encounters, and surroundings from that month, covering subjects like street scenes—primarily in New York City, where Saveri works in Emergency Medical Services — portraits of friends and st

February 2025

Presentation Thursday March 20th, 7 pm ,

Pelle di lava, by Chiara Indelicato, published by Palais books

Chiara Indelicato, photographer and resident of Stromboli, explores in her work life on a volcanic island, where the inhabitants live with the acute awareness of a finite world, at the mercy of the elements. Beneath the ashes, between the sea and the fire, she questions how to subsist in an environment with limited resources. Pelle di Lava has its origins in two disasters in 2022: a fire ravaging the island’s vegetation, followe

February 2025

Presentation Thursday March 27th, 7 pm,

Dal giardino – Riconciliarsi con il selvatico, by Cosimo Terlizzi, published by Ziczic edizioni

A book on living the countryside, starting from observation, from the desire to support, reinterpret and facilitate the natural processes of creating new ecosystems. The story of a research born from feeling, from the need to rediscover the possibility of a relationship between species in a man-made countryside devoted to production.Cosimo Terlizzi’s texts alternate with photographs of Lamia Santolina’s garden in the making and of the other spaces in whic