From April 10 to September 6, 2026, the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin will host Diana Markosian. Replaced, an exhibition curated by Brandei Estes and produced by Intesa Sanpaolo as part of the third edition of EXPOSED - Torino Photo Festival. The exhibition, conceived as an original project and presented as a world premiere, combines photography and cinema to interrogate the dynamics of emotional relationships and the fragility of romantic myths.
The exhibition path stems from some fundamental questions: what happens when a love story ends? What does it mean to observe oneself while being replaced, whether in the lives of those who loved us or in places once perceived as sacred? Replaced addresses these very questions, exploring the persistence of grief and the transformation of memories, highlighting how once-exclusive gestures and places can be shared with another person.
To visually translate such reflections, Markosian has engaged an actor who relives scenes of tenderness and moments of brokenness, placing them in the unstable terrain of memory, where desire modifies, embellishes or erases memories. The artist thus restores the intimacy of past fragments, prolonging the perception of falling in love for an instant and turning revisiting memory into an exercise of authorship: a way of exerting control over the past while gradually loosening its grip.
The project also includes a film made specifically for the museum room. The work alternates single images and split-screen juxtapositions, temporally extending the narrative and intensifying the dramatic effect of the photographs. The images show cycles of attachment, separation and memory, with scenes inhabiting a fragile space between presence and absence, between the desire to let go and the desire to stay, tracing a reflection on the “emotional life” of love beyond its conclusion.
The exhibition is accompanied by the artist’s book Replaced, co-published by Allemandi and Atelier EXB, which takes up and deepens the themes addressed in the exhibition project. The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program of free events, the first of which will be held on April 10 at 6:30 pm. On that occasion, the artist will dialogue with curator Brandei Estes, delving into the project and the creative process, followed by a catalog signing.
The Gallerie d’Italia in Turin is part of Intesa Sanpaolo’s museum project, along with the Milan, Naples and Vicenza branches, under the direction of Michele Coppola, the bank’s Executive Director Art, Culture and Historical Assets and General Director of the Gallerie d’Italia.
“Gallerie d’Italia,” says Michele Coppola, Executive Director Art, Culture and Historical Assets Intesa Sanpaolo and General Director Gallerie d’Italia, "take part in the new edition of EXPOSED with a special contribution, the world premiere of the Replaced exhibition dedicated to one of the most interesting contemporary photographers, Diana Markosian. The initiative reaffirms Intesa Sanpaolo’s focus on promoting the culture of the image as a tool to tell the present, through projects of strong artistic quality. We thus renew our participation in the Festival, confirming our strong support for the organizer, Fondazione CAMERA, and the work of the newly appointed director Walter Guadagnini."
Diana Markosian, born in Moscow in 1989 and of Armenian origin, works between photography, film and installation, investigating memory, displacement and the construction of personal and collective histories. Her work has been exhibited in international institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the International Center of Photography, and the Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam. In 2025 he received the Madame Figaro Prize at the Rencontres d’Arles for the exhibition Father. His works are part of public and private collections and are known for the dialogue between documentary practice and scripted narrative in contemporary art.
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