27 September | MADRE MUSEUM

4.00 pm Fermento gathering at Madre.

6.00 pm Atlas dei Corpi: travelling collective action, setting off from the Madre and heading to the Corpo di Napoli.

This new action of the multi-year project is curated by Nicola Ciancio for Ex-Voto | radical public culture, and is organised in collaboration with/thanks to: Centro Itard, If Contemporary Flowers, Cosa del Futuro, CoolCity, Filtro5Lab, L’arsenale di Napoli, LaSantissima Community Hub, Scalzabanda. Atlas dei Corpi forms part of Atlante delle Rive 2026, based on an idea by Marco Paolini for La Fabbrica del Mondo, produced by Jolefilm www.atlantedellerive.org

The Madre Museum presents the final instalment of Atlas dei Corpi, the work that artist Simona Da Pozzo has been developing since 2019 centred on the Corpo di Napoli, the monument to the Nile in the historic centre. Over these seven years of work, using collaborative and horizontal methodologies, Simona has initiated process-based interventions with and on the monument, aimed at investigating tangible and intangible heritage by exploring alliances between bodies from a more-than-human perspective.
To mark World Rivers Day and European Heritage Days, a performative gathering will lead participants in the ‘Atlas dei Corpi’ parade towards the monument.
This performance piece involves the organisations and individuals who have contributed to its development over the years. The research and the various stages of the project were, in fact, carried out with and thanks to the situated knowledge of: Daniela Allocca, Isabel Albertini, Francesca Amirante, Alessandro Armento, Amedeo Benestante, Alberto Bottillo, Brizio, Nicola Capone, Francesca Capasso, Nicola Ciancio, Cosmo Ciancio Da Pozzo, Maria Cristina Comite, Maria Corbi, Rita de Maria, Roberto Fiorentini, Pietro Gaglianò, Marco Izzolino, Hassan Kalid, Rosa Maietta, Lidia Marinaro, Viviana Marchiò, Carmine Masucci, Paola Mautone, Salvatore Mele, Paola Milone, Maria Nasti, Lorenzo Passi, Chiara Pirozzi, Maria Diletta Pubblico, Susanna Ravelli, Serena Ricci, Priscilla Ruggero, Gabriella Russo, Giuliana Sandulli, Gabi Scardi, Matteo Seguso, Luciana Soravia, Petra Van Brabandt, Kamiel Verschuren, Lorenzo Xiques.