On 1 July, at La Santissima Community Hub, *The Search for the Invisible* talk brings together Gabi Scardi (curator), Tiziana Pers (Rave East Village Artist Residency), Simona Da Pozzo (artist), Susanna Ravelli (Cas degli Artisti – Milan and Centro Itard) and Nicola Capone (philosopher).
The talk is part of Domestic Conversations for Public Actions: a project by Ex-Voto [radical public culture], promoted and co-funded by the City of Naples as part of its 2026/2027 cultural programme, in partnership with La Santissima Community Hub, Riot Studio and Dispaccio Art Book Shop. The project is curated by Nicola Ciancio, with artistic advice from Simona Da Pozzo and scientific advice from Giuliana Ciancio.
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. Since 2011 it supports research, dialogue and production in an experimental and multidisciplinary art project. It deals with the role and responsibility of contemporary art in relation to the otherness represented by animals, as well as indicating the need to reconsider our position in the light of a bio-centric, anti-speciesist perspective. It also offers an experience in which all the participants, artists, philosophers, critics, scientists, writers, architects and activists, get to share food, which is always vegan in respect for all sentient beings, and to share time and space together with trees that we saved from felling and animals that have been saved from slaughter and from consumer mechanisms by Tiziana through her practice Art_History (always in-progress).
Visit to the permanent artworks: Antonio Bardino, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Loretta Cappanera, Simona Da Pozzo, Igor Grubić, Ilare, Ryts Monet, Liliana Moro, Ivan Moudov, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Penzo+Fiore, Anna Pontel, Fabiola Porchi, Laura Pozzar, Nada Prlja, Janis Rafa, Eleonora Rinaldi, Giuseppe Stampone.
The title of the videoart exhibition evokes a verse by Bassam Hajar which, through the metaphor of the tree, conjures up both rootedness and exile, poetically highlighting the intense geopolitical specificity that this region embodies at this moment in history. For this second instalment, the project involves six of the most active independent organisations dedicated to contemporary visual cultures in the Campania region: ATTIVA Cultural Projects, EX – VOTO [radical public culture], Flip Project, Marea Art Project, Opificio Puca and Quartiere Latino.
As part of this programme, Ex-voto [Radical Public Culture] presents the video work *Travelling Images, an Image Amidst the Heart* (الصور المتنقلة صورة بوسط القلب) by Joud Toamah.
Talk on June 18Th 2026 at 6PM with: Nicola Ciancio and Simona Da Pozzo, EX – VOTO [radical public culture], Elisa Caldana, Federico del Vecchio Flip Project, Marta Ferrara and Alberta Romano
image: videoprojection of the video Travelling Images, An Image Amidst the Heart at Madre Museum
An Image Amidst the Heart* (الصور المتنقلة صورة بوسط القلب) video work meditates on family photographs and their digital transmission across multiple displacements from Deir ez-Zor, Syria. Tracing gestures such as scanning, uploading, searching, cutting, compressing, and forwarding, the work reflects on how fragmented personal and collective memories are reassembled into new narrative constellations marked by ruptures and disappearances. The intimacy of the images remains fugitive from state surveillance, erasure, and border violence, foregrounding fragile yet enduring acts of relationality and mourning.
image: We invited the actress Giulia Pica, Pesci Company, to read the text that Joud wrote for the talk.
Joud Toamah is a multidisciplinary designer and research-based artist working with moving image, sound and publishing, exploring memory and knowledge transmission within contexts of erasure. Her current work centers the Euphrates River as a witness to deep relationality against militarism and extractivism. She coordinates the Advanced Master’s in Art and Design Research (AdMA, Antwerp) and co-teaches “Islamic Ways of Knowing and Aesthetic Practices.” Her work has been exhibited at venues including FOMU, Beursschouwburg, Monty and Photoforum Pasquart.
As part of the ‘Coabitazioni: art, landscape and community’ project at the Fondazione Gori – Fattoria di Celle in Pistoia, a team of artists, curators and professionals are guiding young residents through research projects. ‘Coabitazioni’ is a seven-month training and research programme curated by Pietro Gaglianò and funded by the Region of Tuscany.
The first part of the programme, dedicated to the main disciplines of artistic production and curating, will feature the participation of, among others: Gabi Scardi, Lorenza Pignatti, Daniel Borselli, Costanza Meli, Giovanni Attili, Maria Giovanna Mancini, Chiara Damiani, Roberto Pino, Anna Lambertini, Daria Filardo, Lucia Giardino, Leandro Pisano and Irene Sanesi. The second part will focus on hands-on practice under the guidance of artists such as Vittorio Corsini, Emanuela Ascari, Stefano Boccalini, Simona Da Pozzo, Vida Rucli for the Robida collective, Virgilio Sieni and the Tempo Reale centre.
Ex-voto [radical Public culture] and L’Arsenale di Napoli present
頑張RIMARE | gamba’ri’mare at LA CURA, Santissima Community Hub
On 27 April at 5 pm at La Santissima Community Hub, Ex-Voto [radical public culture] and the Arsenale di Napoli present 頑張RIMARE | gamba’ri’mare, a work by Simona Da Pozzo that will be permanently installed in the spaces of LA CURA, becoming its distinctive and recognisable feature.
The work, born out of research within the Glocary|ˈGləʊkərɪ project—through which the artist explores the cognitive and verbal processes that bring visions to light through dialogue—consists of 340 hand-printed wooden tiles that spell out the word 頑張RIMARE, one of the terms donated to the project’s archive over the years (2011–2019) during which the participatory process spanned multiple cities, from Beirut to Münster.
This work reflects the meaning and aim of La Cura, amplifying the affective and ever-changing dimension of language.
頑張RIMARE was created in 2017 for the event Rompiamo le righe!, the launch party for Fondazione Cariplo’s three-year cross-sectoral programme Lacittàintorno, dedicated to urban regeneration, coinciding with the 13th Giornata del Contemporaneo, produced by Non Riservato in collaboration with Ex-Voto [radical public culture], through the post-typographic initiative realised thanks to the collaboration of Filippo Basile//Studio Florida, Cecilia Di Gaddo//*stardelight Design and curated by Nicola Ciancio, creating an environmental installation built with the public. The installation takes shape, with a nomadic spirit, through a technical device freely inspired by the movable type of letterpress printing and the bamboo books of Chinese tradition.
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.artinfo.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.
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.
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