#INSIDE - Turin. "Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter"
#INSIDE - Turin, a series of unmissable photography events hosted at Gallerie d'Italia with famous contemporary photographers.
Program of the events: dates and times
THURSDAY APRIL 17, 2025 - "CARRIE MAE WEEMS: THE HEART OF THE MATTER" - from 6:00 p.m CARRIE MAE WEEMS, in dialogue with SARAH MEISTER – follows from 7:00 p.m BOOK SIGNING - Event in english
WEDNESDAY MAY 7, 2025 – “WORDS, PICTURES, POWER: A CONVERSATION AROUND THE WORDS THAT INHABIT US” - with ESPÉRANCE HAKUZWIMANA, NOGAYE NDIAYE, and HANANE MAKHLOUFI. Follows from 7:30 p.m book signing
WEDNESDAY MAY 21, 2025 – “THE BODY AND WRITING. NARRATING OURSELVES, REWRITING THE WORLD” - with JENNIFER GUERRA and KARIMA 2G. Follows from 7:30 p.m book signing. Event also streamed live
THURSDAY MAY 29, 2025 – “REREADING ITALIAN HISTORY: AFRO-DESCENDANTS AND MEMORY” - with DAPHNE DI CINTO and JUSTIN RANDOLPH THOMPSON. Moderates VALENTINO AGUNU
WEDNESDAY JUNE 4, 2025 – “AFRO-DESCENDANT GLOSSARY NEW PARADIGMS AND TECHNICAL PROOF OF BELONGING” - with IGIABA SCEGO and MARILENA UMUHOZA DELLI. Follows from 7:30 p.m book signing. Event also streamed live
WEDNESDAY JUNE 11, 2025 – “ART AS THE CURE: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND TRANSFORMATION.” - with VALERIE TAMEU, WISSAL HOUBABI and SIMÃO AMISTA. Follows from 7:30 p.m book signing.
Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter
Date: Thursday 17 April 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Format: meeting and signing
Speakers: Carrie Mae Weems, Sarah Meister
The great American artist Carrie Mae Weems presents her great retrospective, Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter. Talking to the curator of the exhibition, Sarah Meister. The event will be in English with translation in Italian.
At the end of the event, from 7 p.m., the artist will be signing copies of the exhibition catalogue.
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Words, pictures, power: a conversation around the words that inhabit us
Date: Wednesday 7 May 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting and signing
Speakers: Espérance Hakuzwimana, Nogaye Ndiaye, Hanane Makhloufi
A discussion about language, its implications and the power it has to generate imagery, draw boundaries, unlock possibilities. The conversation will explore the way words contribute to building representations and visions of the world, influencing the way we recognise ourselves, inhabit the present and imagine new futures.
As part of the cycle of meetings curated by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, in collaboration with Fondazione Circolo dei lettori, resulting from discussions with experts on identity, representation and language: Grace Fainelli, expert in inclusive communication and plural languages; Hanane Makhloufi, poet and curator of Black History Month Torino; Valentino Agunu, multifaceted artist: musician, actor and performer.
At the end of the event, from 7:30 p.m., there will be a book signing.
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The body and writing. Narrating ourselves, rewriting the world
Date: Wednesday 21 May 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting and signing
Speakers: Jennifer Guerra, Karima 2G
Jennifer Guerra and Anna Maria Gehnyei, aka Karima 2G, talk about the body and writing as spaces of resistance and identity and representation of female and racialised bodies. Event in collaboration with Fondazione Circolo dei lettori.
At the end of the event, from 7:30 p.m., there will be a book signing.
Event also streamed live.
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Rereading Italian history: Afro-descendants and memory
Date: Thursday 29 May 2025
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Daphne Di Cinto, Justin Randolph Thompson, Valentino Agunu
Italian history is criss-crossed by Afro-descendant presences that are often invisible to the collective memory. The meeting proposes a reflection on these forgotten stories, to restore dignity and visibility to those who helped build the Italy of yesterday and today. A conversation that weaves memory, visual arts and narration together, offering tools enabling us to rethink collective identity and imagine a fairer and more plural historical representation.
As part of the cycle of meetings curated by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, in collaboration with Fondazione Circolo dei lettori, resulting from discussions with experts on identity, representation and language: Grace Fainelli, expert in inclusive communication and plural languages; Hanane Makhloufi, poet and curator of Black History Month Torino; Valentino Agunu, multifaceted artist: musician, actor and performer.
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AFRO-DESCENDANT GLOSSARY New paradigms and technical proof of belonging
Date: Wednesday 4 June 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Igiaba Scego, Marilena Umuhoza Delli
When you live in Italy and your origins have danced with Africa from birth, you soon realise that you inherit, almost immediately, a whole vocabulary of terms to be recast. Ordinary words, such as “home”, “language”, “document” and “art”, become enriched with additional meanings, to the point of changing their value, relating them to that “cumbersome” geographical matrix which, like a heart that beats on its own, never stops making itself heard. Igiaba Scego and Marilena Umuhoza Delli draw on their experience as writers to create a series of voices to begin to compose a veritable Afro-descendant glossary, reflecting on the emotional lexicon of a cultural reality that can no longer be ignored in our country. The house we finally belong to is a new language to inhabit. Event in collaboration with Fondazione Circolo dei lettori.
At the end of the event, from 7:30 p.m., there will be a book signing.
Event streamed live.
Art as the cure: memory, trauma and transformation
Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Valerie Tameu, Wissal Houbabi, Simão Amista
What role can art play in the processes of healing and healing from colonial and racial trauma? A conversation about art as a reparative practice, capable of opening up new scenarios, making the invisible visible and activating processes of social transformation. A meeting that questions the power of artistic and performative language to reformulate memory, sew up its wounds, reactivate its hidden senses, give it back its voice.
As part of the cycle of meetings curated by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, in collaboration with Fondazione Circolo dei lettori, resulting from discussions with experts on identity, representation and language: Grace Fainelli, expert in inclusive communication and plural languages; Hanane Makhloufi, poet and curator of Black History Month Torino; Valentino Agunu, multifaceted artist: musician, actor and performer.
There will be a signing at the end of the event, from 7 p.m.