#INSIDE - Turin. "Nick Brandt. The Day May Break"
#INSIDE - Turin, a series of unmissable photography events hosted at Gallerie d'Italia.
Program of the events: dates and times
WEDNESDAY MARCH 18, 2026 - "Nick Brandt. The Day May Break" - from 6.30 p.m. with Nick Brandt, in dialogue with curator Arianna Rinaldo – follows from 7.30 p.m book signing - Event in English
THURSDAY MARCH26, 2026 - "Voices from the Desert: Climate, War and
” with Migration in the Contemporary Middle East" with Alessia Melcangi, Lorenzo Pregliasco
WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2026 - "Journey into the invisible world" with Antonella Fioravanti
WEDNESDAY MAY 6, 2026 - "Us and the Wild world" with Chiara Grasso
WEDNESDAY MAY 20, 2026 - "Climate Plunder: the Story of an Evolutionary Trap " with Telmo Pievani
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 2026 - "We Are Not the Only Ones" with Giorgio
Volpi
Nick Brandt. The Day May Break
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2026
Time: 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting and signing
Speakers: Nick Brandt, Arianna Rinaldo
British photographer Nick Brandt presents The Day May Break. Light at the End of the Day, in conversation with curator Arianna Rinaldo.
Launched in 2020, the project is divided into four chapters and portrays people and animals affected by the environmental crisis, offering a compelling and poetic glimpse of the fragility of today and the possibility of hope for tomorrow.
The meeting will be held in English.
There will be a book signing at the end of the event, from 7:30 p.m..
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Voices from the Desert: Climate, War and Migration in the Contemporary Middle East
Date: Thursday 26 March 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Alessia Melcangi, Lorenzo Pregliasco
Drawing on the suggestions made by photographer Nick Brandt’s exhibition The Day May Break, historian and political scientist Alessia Melcangi, who specialises in the Middle East, offers her thoughts on the most significant geopolitical dynamics currently at play in the region. She takes a particular look at the fourth chapter of the series, The Echo of Our Voices, shot in the Jordanian desert, which portrays Syrian refugee families living in a state of long-term displacement within an increasingly fragile environment. Drawing on these images, the meeting will reflect on the links between climate crisis, conflict and migration in the Middle East.
The event will also be streamed live.
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Journey into the invisible world
Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Antonella Fioravanti
There is an invisible web of life on Earth of which we are a part. Germs are its ancient weavers: they regulate the planet’s cycles and safeguard the health of plants, animals and people.
Scientist and researcher Antonella Fioravanti, author of the book Viaggio
nel mondo invisibile (Aboca Edizioni), explains the bacterial and viral
challenges we will be forced to face in the near future due to global warming.
Event in collaboration Aboca Edizioni
The author will be signing copies of her book Viaggio nel mondo invisibile at the end of the event.
Us and the Wild
Date: Wednesday 6 May 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Chiara Grasso
Ethologist and communicator Chiara Grasso, author of Il tasso e la bambina (Aboca Edizioni) and winner of the Venice Gardens Foundation’s Young Readers’ Literary Prize, takes the audience on a journey to discover the complex and fascinating relationship between humans and wildlife. Chiara Grasso weaves together scientific expertise and narrative sensitivity, offering readers of all ages the tools to view the natural world with fresh eyes.
Event in collaboration Aboca Edizioni
The author will be signing copies of her book Il tasso e la bambina at the end of the event.
Climate Plunder: the Story of an Evolutionary Trap
Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Telmo Pievani
Drawing inspiration from Nick Brandt’s dramatic and moving photographs, the talk will offer an update on the latest information describing the ongoing global “poly-crisis”: anthropogenic global warming, the collapse of ecosystems, and the risk of pandemics. The diagnosis is clear, and the issue is now only marginally scientific. The environmental crisis strongly exacerbates inequalities, conflicts over resources, forced migration and geopolitical instability: as we empathically perceive when viewing Brandt’s photographs, at the root of it all lies a question of injustice – towards the world’s poorest countries and the generations of the future. Those who study the distant past and the natural history of the human species have a name for this dynamic: the evolutionary trap. We can still escape it, but we must really want to.
We Are Not the Only Ones
Date: Wednesday 3 June 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Giorgio Volpi
Recognising that humans are simply “one animal among many” will open our eyes and help us reconcile with nature, adopting a sustainable development model. Giorgio Volpi sets out to do just that with his new book Non siamo gli unici (Aboca Edizioni): challenging anthropocentrism and dismantling the notion that human beings are unique and superior, using tangible examples and historical facts.
Event in collaboration Aboca Edizioni
The author will be signing copies of his book Non siamo gli unici at the end of the event.
Date: Friday 10 April 2026
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting and signing
Speakers: Diana Markosian, Brandei Estes
To coincide with the exhibition Diana Markosian. Replaced, the artist will be talking to curator Brandei Estes about her project and the creative process behind it. Using photography, installation and autobiographical storytelling, Replaced looks at how love, memory and loss shape our identity, questioning our sense of belonging to shared memories and the disorientation that arises when these are rewritten.
During the event, the artist will talk about the creation of the work and the journey that led her to transform a personal experience into a broader reflection on the fragility of relationships and the fleeting nature of memory.
The meeting will be held in English.
There will be a book signing at the end of the event, from 7:30 p.m.
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Love and its reasons
Date: Wednesday 27 May 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Vito Mancuso
There is undoubtedly a biological need for love, as can be seen even in the animal kingdom. But human love cannot be reduced to biology; it is a combination of sentiment, passion, melancholy, ideals, darkness and light.
What does this tell us about ourselves and our destiny?
Love: a ghost story
Date: Wednesday 10 June 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Format: meeting
Speakers: Valeria Montebello
To mark Diana Markosian, Replaced, this meeting with Valeria Montebello explores the way in which romantic relationships continue to live on in our memories even after they have ended. The author will reflect on how past loves remain present as traces, ghosts that inhabit places, objects and shared memories. A reflection on desire, loss and the ways in which we each come to terms with the end of a relationship.