National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Embassy of Italy in Bosnia and Herzegovina cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Italy. The (in)visible stories on Thursday, November, 14 at 7:30 pm in the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Zelenih beretki 8).

The project was organized by Glocal Project Consulting in collaboration with the Central Institute for Demoetnoantropology and the Museum of civilizations from Rome, and it is promoted by the UNESCO and the Embassy of Italy in B&H. The exhibition is conceived as a multi-sensory journey into the heart and soul of Italy, showing the immaterial heritage and presenting the core of Italianity. The curators of the exhibition are Micol Di Veroli and Dominique Lora.

The project develops through a polyphonic video audio immersion that varies from the famous processions of big shoulder-brone processional structures to a series of video documentaries on the Italian traditional cuisine and music. The visual parcours is sprinkled with ethnographic objects from the Italian folk tradition dating back to the early 1900s. Not yet archeological, but no longer contemporary, these objects – whistles, games, simple tableware, street vendors shop signs – with a unique sense of continuity, keep a great and curious narrative potential that helps the visitor to perceive and reveal their past voices and stories. The journey is finally accomplished through the visual, critical and narrative experience of artworks created by 15 contemporary Italian masters who were inspired by both traditions and present to imagine a possible future, reflecting on what it means to be a citizen of a country in which – to use a statement by Aldo Palazzeschi – only the past is truly actual.

Artists that are exhibited: Tommaso Cascella, Gaia Scaramella, Flavio Favelli, Dario Ghibaudo, Silvia Giambrone, Maria Lai, Francesco Lauretta, Davide Monaldi, Luana Perilli, Roxy in the box, Marinella Senatore, Angelo Marinelli, Giuseppe Stampone, Segio Tumminello, Zaelia Bishop.