From March 25 to June 12 2022
The castle of Monferrato (piazza Castello)
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10AM to 01PM and from 03PM to 07PM
Free entry

Living Layers
edited by Mariateresa Cerretelli

The Living Layers series is a project that reinterprets the territory of the VI Rome Municipality, developed from the commission by the Wunderkammen Gallery in collaboration with the MACRO Museum in 2012. The images are the expression of the relationship between Valentina Vannicola and these places, with the city in general; a context that is both environmental and architectural, a landscape that carries a specific emotional atmosphere. Through a work of staged photography, the artist puts on display a city apparently lacking both temporal and specific spacial references. The characters, amateur actors and local residents of the neighbourhood, are isolated in symbolic spaces that carry the historic and social mark of the territory: a grass field that has in the background the architecture of Casilino 23 designed by Ludovico Quaroni, a courtyard in between buildings in the neighbourhood of Torpignattara, the military airport or a building originally created to house the scenographies for the Opera Theatre in Rome. In the Living Layers series, space acquires the role of absolute protagonist, in which the showcase of emotions and a contemporary man’s obsessions are portrayed. To complete the exhibit , there are some study materials used by the artist to create the project, like a little model and preparatory sketches kept in an album.