Displaced

Displaced
A cycle offering a seemingly random view of contemporary art: each event stands alone yet is subtly connected to the others by an invisible thread revealed through resonances, contrasts, and unexpected encounters.
Events
Contiguous monochromes
Tancredi Fornasetti
Contiguous monochromes
27 Nov-22 Dec 2025
Other than itself
Niccolò Fornari
Other than itself
11 Jun-30 Jul 2025
Giants
Giulia Di Pasquale
Giants
21 Mar-07 May 2025
Aequilibrium
Costanza Alvarez de Castro
Aequilibrium
19 Sep-18 Oct 2024
The pearl is the disease of the shell
Alessandra Giovannoni, Arcangelo, Claudio Palmieri, Giancarla Frare, Pierluigi Isola, Salvatore Pulvirenti, Vincenzo Scolamiero
The pearl is the disease of the shell
06 Jun-11 Jul 2024
The sky is in the ice
Alice Colacione, Denise Montresor, Eleonora Bona, Mattia Cleri Polidori, Paolo Vitale, Tiziano Conte
The sky is in the ice
11 Apr-03 May 2024
Light Tensions
Gregory de la Haba
Light Tensions
09 Nov-09 Dec 2023
Based on a true story
Nicola Rotiroti
Based on a true story
19 Jan-18 Feb 2023
ThePinkSide of WTF
Laura Mega
ThePinkSide of WTF
28 Jun-16 Sep 2022
Artificial Horizons
Michele Lostia
Artificial Horizons
05 May-16 Jun 2022
Astreia, the sky beyond
Silvia Iorio
Astreia, the sky beyond
17 Mar-29 Apr 2022
Authentic Self
Authentic Self
30 Jun-30 Jul 2021
Visual Infinity
Costanza Alvarez de Castro
Visual Infinity
20 Feb-27 Mar 2021
Papers, diversity in equality
Edoardo Civitella
Papers, diversity in equality
07 Nov-05 Dec 2020
Forever
Oreste Casalini
Forever
07 Dec 2019-29 Jan 2020
Pyros [πυρο], Written in the Fire
Patrick Eduardo
Pyros [πυρο], Written in the Fire
17 Oct-16 Nov 2019
Atlas Coelestis
Davide Dormino
Atlas Coelestis
27 Oct-17 Nov 2018
Day of celebration
Costanza Alvarez de Castro
Day of celebration
12 Dec 2017-12 Jan 2018
Fingerprints
Micaela Legnaioli
Fingerprints
13-22 May 2015
Bright Moon
Massimo Catalani
Bright Moon
25 Feb-22 Mar 2013
Blue water clear water
Elvio Chiricozzi
Blue water clear water
30 Sep-27 Oct 2012

Displaced arises from the need to observe contemporary art without confining it to categories, trends, or predetermined curatorial frameworks. The project presents a panorama that appears deliberately random at first glance: a constellation of autonomous events, divergent artistic languages, and practices that seem unrelated. Yet it is precisely within this apparent discontinuity that the true core of the cycle emerges.

Each exhibition, each intervention, and each participating artist becomes a fragment of a broader mosaic, subtly connected to the others by a thin yet significant thread—one that remains invisible but perceptible, unspoken yet present. This guiding thread does not dictate meaning; instead, it suggests interpretations, allowing connections to surface through resonances, frictions, contrasts, and unexpected echoes among works that share the same time while moving in different directions.

Displaced does not seek thematic unity but rather sensitive adjacency. It does not aim for closure but for openness. The invited artists share a willingness to shift—away from familiar contexts, from the comfort of repetition, from the physical or mental “place” in which art is often situated. The project intentionally places them “out of place,” encouraging them to engage with unforeseen situations, unfamiliar spaces, and broader, unpredictable dialogues.

Thus, what seems casual begins to acquire form; what appears dissonant reveals an unstable yet compelling harmony.

The cycle invites the public to explore this hidden weave: a path that unfolds not through what is explicitly declared but through what emerges, intersects, and resonates across successive encounters.

Displaced reminds us that art is rarely found where we expect it to be, and that its most authentic meanings often arise from unexpected juxtapositions, unlikely proximities, and alternate spaces. In this shift—this momentary displacement—the invisible thread becomes visible, revealing a deeper narrative that unites the entire project.