RAVE AL SOLE

Exhibition OPENING

Saturday 21 March at 3.00 pm RAVE East Village Artist Residency, Soleschiano (Manzano, Udine),

artists: Camilla Alberti, Simona Da Pozzo, Jakup Ferri, Igor Grubić, Giulia Iacolutti, Ilare, Ryts Monet, Liliana Moro, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Penzo+Fiore, Isabella and Tiziana Pers, Nada Prlja, Danilo Sciorilli, Driant Zeneli.

The project is realised with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia #IOSONOFRIULIVENEZIAIULIA and the Fondazione Friuli, in partnership with: the Municipality of Trivignano Udinese, ALL/University of Udine, Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, Trieste Contemporanea, Arteventi, with the support of Biolab – Plant Based Food. Main partner: Arsenalia

RAVE East Village Artist Residency is a meta-project created by the artists Isabella and Tiziana Pers together with Giovanni Marta and a sanctuary for rescued animals and trees
www.raveresidency.art
info.raveresidency@gmail.com 324.8628511

Curatorial assistants: Irene Emanuele and Sofia Sorrentino.

The event will feature a walk through the village with an interspecies guided tour, exploring the works on display. The exhibition unfolds as a scattered route throughout the village: the works are scattered amongst the ancient stone houses and centuries-old trees, transforming the landscape into a space for experience and connection.

The exhibition RAVE AL SOLE stems from the experience of living alongside the animals and trees rescued and taken in by the village, weaving artistic practices with reflections on posthuman and anti-speciesist thought: these ‘other’ presences take centre stage, such as the figure of Copper, a mare in her late thirties who recently passed away at RAVE, whose personality inspired a wealth of reflections over many years.

In this sense, RAVE is a participatory, ever-evolving work-in-progress that intertwines contemporary art with concrete responsibility, generating over time an ecosystem of coexistence between human and non-human life forms.

The works are articulated through a plurality of languages that challenge hierarchies between species and invite us to imagine new forms of coexistence. Beneath the branches of a centuries-old mulberry tree saved from felling and transplanted to the RAVE site, the project invites us to adopt a different stance in the world: to recognise ourselves as living beings amongst living beings, beyond the divisions of species, gender, class or culture.

The works oscillate between political tension and an intimate dimension, suggesting that every collective transformation arises from a shift in perspective and the emergence of new shared narratives.

At the time of the spring equinox and the end of winter, the title plays on the name of the place where the experience takes root, alluding at the same time to Plato’s exit from the cave, in search of a potentially different truth, of a place in the light. ‘Staying in the sun’ as a metaphor for regeneration and collective connection, beneath the rays of the primary and universal source of life: 800 years after the death of St Francis, the Canticle of the Creatures, the only non-anthropocentric reference in the Christian tradition, begins precisely with the image of Brother Sun.

Visual Conversation

Video Art Screening

Friday, 6 March 2026, 7 p.m. C/O SuperOtium

Via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi 8 – 80135, Naples

A new edition of VVV-Residency is presented in the frame of the event Visual Conversation at SuperOtium.

VVV-r is a project run by VisualContainerTV and EX-VOTO [radical public culture], Arts University Bournemouth, curated by Alessandra Arnò and Simona Da Pozzo

VISUAL CONVERSATION, an evening dedicated to video art and moving images, scheduled for Thursday, 6 March 2026, at 7 p.m. in the art hotel and artist residence in the historic centre of Naples. Visual Conversation is the result of a collaboration between the Residenza VVV-R project and SuperOtium, Collezione Agovino, nctm and l’arte. Interweaving materials and perspectives that revolve around urgent themes, the collection of works explores the relationship between human and artificial intelligence, the construction of visual narratives, the use of found footage, and the perceptual transformations generated by digital interfaces.

Hacking Monuments @Milchhoff

SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY from 5 pm to 9pm @ PAVILLON AM MILCHHOF – Berlin

artists:
Sophie Ernst – Marcio Carvalho – Sarah Vanagt – Daniela Ortiz – Simona Da Pozzo

Curated by Ex-voto [Radical Public Culture] in collaboration with Visualcontainer, the screening is part of Hacking Monuments, an art-practice-based research project developed by Da Pozzo in the form of an archive: 

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Hacking Monuments. Tips to make sense of them explores the phenomena of hacking the monuments: since ’70s, several artists have been dealing with the legacy of power by interrupting the narrative flux of monuments. They transform the monuments in a space of socio-political dialogue and re-coding of public narratives. Besides the artistic and activist intervention, the research focuses on the performative act of confronting the claim of the permanence of the monument; the ritual act of re-coding the appearance of the monument, and, with it, its power to inform the reality. Some hackers use monuments as mannequins:  the monument supports an object that is the real protagonist and signifier of the action. The object dresses the monument, which becomes interchangeable. Some other hackers act in a monument-specific approach.

Tips to make sense of them presents the practices of five artists dealing with monuments in a performative way in the frame of long term researches: Sophie Ernst, Marcio Carvalho, Sarah Vanagt, Simona Da Pozzo and Daniela Ortiz.

Little Figures – Sarah Vanagt, 15’, B/W, 35mm + mini-DV, Belgium 2003

Silent Empress – Sophie Ernst, 12’22” Min, color, Great Britain 2012

Notes about a polyamorous affair with the body of Naples – Simona Da Pozzo, 7’, color, stereo, Italy 2022

Memories for 14 busts – Marcio Carvalho, 21’28” color, stero, Germany 2023

Ofrenda – Daniela Ortiz, 1’20”, 16:9 color, stero, Spain 2012 

on “infiniti mondi”

Immagine di copertina e all’interno della rivista Infiniti Mondi n°40, rivista bimestrale, Napoli giugno 2025.

Testo, tratto dalla rivista, “L’acqua e le forme”, di Massimo Tartaglione.

“Le opere di Simona Da Pozzo riprodotte sulle pagine di questo numero di “Infiniti Mondi” appartengono a tre progetti, realizzati dal 2014 al 2025″

“L’idea di una lenta discesa quasi a planare più che alla dinamica della narrazione, in questa configurazione, fa pensare a quella della ricognizione o della scansione, accentuata dall’asciuttezza del segno grafico o dall’assenza del colore, che tuttavia si anima attraverso la vibrazione di natura corpuscolare e per la fitta densità del tratto. Il filo che lega questa ricerca è l’acqua: elemento primario e promordiale, che nella sua essenzialità diventa segno di una manifestazione vitale e indispensabile del mondo della natura e insieme un prodotto pienamente umano, un oggetto culturale ricostruito nel racconto del mito o trattato con le più raffinate e avanzate tecnologie rimanendo pire alla fine semplice acqua. Si potrebbe anzi dire che è proprio la distinzione tra oggetto naturale e oggetto culturale a slittare e a rarefarsi di immagine in immagine. Le forme enigmatiche e quasi totemiche delle strutture spaziali rimandano agli avanzati processi di conservazione e recupero dell’acqua come tappe di un lunghissimo viaggio che ha nel suo diramarsi e svolgersi plasmato le valle e i costoni rocciosi che, in questi disegni, assomigliano a frammenti di ossa o di epidermide. Se le piante diventano enormi architetture organiche l’inversione di scala fa dei bruchi, visti con un’ottica macro, l’eleogio di una meravigliosa e quasi fantastica complessità. C’è indubbiamente una prospettiva di ordine politico in questa progettualità ma la sua forza si esprime con una serrata evidenza proprio in quanto manifestazione artistica”

Massimo Tartaglione

70 volte 7 Libri d’Artista

Sep. 12, 2025  |  EXHIBITION

Opening of the exhibition 70 volte 7 Libri d’Artista; until January 6, 2026. 

Biblioteca Comunale Salvatore Quasimodo, Modica (Ragusa)

An exhibition curated by Concetta Modica featuring over 100 artist’s books created by more than 92 artists who explored the concept of the book.

Many of the books will remain in a special section of the public library for free consultation.

artists: Paola Alborghetti, Daniela Agosta, Silvia Amodio, Stefano Arienti, Alessia Armeni, Maura Banfo, Angelo Barone, Orazio Battaglia, Susanna Baumgartner, Renata Boero, Lorenza Boisi, Bruno Bozzetto, Lara Ilaria Braconi, Sergio Breviario, Gianni Burattoni,  Angelo Candiano, Francesco Carone, Andrea Cataudella, Arianna Carossa, Giorgio Cattani, Renzo Chiesa, Gabriella Ciancimino, Sarah Ciracì, Andrea Contin, Roberta Colombo, Ermanno Cristini, Alice Cattaneo, Martina Della Valle, Simona Da Pozzo, Carla Della Beffa,  Alessio De Girolamo, Luca Del Guercio, Federico Del Vecchio, Carlo Dell’Acqua, Paola Di Bello, Gabriele Di Matteo, Simona Di Rosa, Marta Dell’Angelo, Elena El Asmar, Alessandro Fabbris, Emilio Fantin, Serena Fineschi, Helga Franza, Eckehard Fuchs, Paola Gaggiotti, Stefania Galegati, Arianna Giorgi, Cristina Gozzini, Alice Guareschi, Michele Guido, Silvia Hell, Antonio Ievolella, T-Yong Chung, Sophie Ko, Giulio Lacchini, Gabriele Landi, Loredana Longo, Claudia Losi, Gino Lucente, Marco Andrea Magni, Guglielmo Manenti, Valeria Manzi, Giuseppe Maraniello, Amedeo Martegani, Yari Miele, Margherita Morgantin, Concetta Modica, Ignazio Mortellaro, Ignazio Monteleone, Elèna Nemkova, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Pancrazzi, Angela Passarello, ​Anita Pepe, Pasquale Polidori, Fabrizio Prevedello, Isabella Pulafitio, Pierluigi Pusole,  Sara Rossi, Angelo Ruta, Caterina Saban, Tarshito, Luca Scarabelli,  Marco Terroni Grifola, Marco Trinca Colonel, Eugenia Vanni, Luming Zhang, Simona Uberto, Sophie Usunier, Francesco Voltolina, Jonida Xherri, Italo Zuffi.

intangib(i)le // il sogno del coccodrillo

At the link you can find the first issue of the digital magazine intangib(i)le to which I had the pleasure of contributing a text and images part of my research Atlas dei Corpi.

intangib(i)le is a publishing project of L’Arsenale di Napoli, directed by Marco Izzolino and dedicated to intangible cultural heritage for a diffuse museum of the intangible. Year 1/2025, ed Alos Sas.

Al link potete trovare il primo numero della rivista digitale intangib(i)le alla quale ho avuto il piacere di contribuire con un testo e delle immagini parte della mia ricerca Atlas dei Corpi.

intangib(i)le è un progetto editoriale de L’Arsenale di Napoli, diretto da Marco Izzolino e dedicato al patrimonio culturale immateriale per  un museo diffuso dell’intangibile. Anno 1/2025, ed Alos Sas.

Il sogno del coccodrillo

April 4th, meeting point at Piazza del Gesù, Naples at 10:45.

An action for a reading of the Corpo di Napoli Monument as an image of a multispecies relationship.

The action is part of Atlas dei Corpi and has been conspired together with: [Radical Public Culture], Il 4 di Maggio, Ensemble Le Scalze.

OPACA

Collettivo damp’s OPEN STUDIO
March 13th 2025, ore 18 via Domenico Cirillo, 18 – Atelier Alifuoco, Naples.

artists: cyop&kaf, Simona Da Pozzo, Massimo De Caria, Viola Lo Moro, Simona Pavoni, Mario Francesco Simeone, Marco Vitale, collettivo damp, Ermanno Cristini

L’interesse per il panorama sta nel vedere la città vera – la città in casa-. Ciò che si trova nella casa senza finestre è il vero. […] (Il vero non ha finestre; il vero non guarda mai fuori nell’universo). Walter Benjamin – I passages di Parigi Una finestra si apre su un cavedio buio. Neanche una finestra, più un portale che trasforma ciò che lo attraversa restituendolo come rovesciato. Neanche un portale, più un’opacità oltre cui si avverte il brulicare di una transizione. “Il senso di qualcosa che non vive ma è vivo”


SIMONA DA POZZO // IL PESO NEGLI OCCHI

Feb 22nd – Apr 21st 2025

exHibit curated by Pietro Gaglianò at Palazzina Indiano Arte, Florence

opening Feb 22nd at 5 pm

A cabbage grown in a pot, a caterpillar colony and a human. The three elements at play are part of a network of relationships that include care and survival, with distinct and overlapping roles where one might be surprised to discover that the human recognises herself as ‘at the same time caretaker and parasite of the cabbage’. The human is also an artist and this is where the awareness, the exercise of observation and the works that synthesise it come from. This conference played on equal terms (even if we ignore what consciousness the animals or the plant have of the artist portraying them) reveals the great beauty of things we only mistakenly call small and expresses a political thought, where anti-specism (criticism of the supremacy of one species over another) overturns the attitude, only human, to overpowering.
Pietro Gaglianò