Turin, at Gallerie d'Italia a journey through images through the Europe of sustainability

The Gallerie d’Italia in Turin presents from September 21, 2023 to February 18, 2024 the exhibition Luca Locatelli. The Circle, curated by Elisa Medde, realized with the specialized support of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation-the world’s largest foundation committed to supporting the Circular Economy and for which Intesa Sanpaolo has been the only financial institution with the role of strategic partner since 2015-with the collaboration of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione Cariplo.

On this occasion, the stories commissioned by Intesa Sanpaolo’s Gallerie d’Italia are presented for the first time in a unified exhibition context: more than one hundred photographs and video contributions through which it is intended to offer a journey throughEurope of experimentation andsustainable industrial advancement, touching on topics such as geothermal energy, textile recycling, reconversion of brownfield sites, and food.

The photographic project The Circle refers to the concept of circular economy, reuse, and recycling; fifty years after its theorization, circularity is to date one of the most promising and ambitious strategies underpinning the creation of a sustainable future from both an environmental and a productive and industrial point of view. This project recounts the revolution of possible solutions: it is the result of a very long research project, in which Luca Locatelli has documented the good practices, experimentations, ambitions and paths of this new utopia. His decades-long commitment to the theme is condensed in the stories presented in the exhibition.

The stories recount real experiences of Nature Based Solutions: actions taken to protect, sustain and restore natural ecosystems, which when applied to industrial and production models have the potential to trigger the Cultural Transformation needed to change the course of things. The images, accompanied by infographics created for this occasion by visual and information designer Federica Fragapane, tell of experiences and realities in which very high engineering, craftsmanship and ancestral wisdom go hand in hand to create a space in which Nature returns to the center, in which human knowledge and wisdom are placed at the service of environmental forces, without trying to domesticate and imprison them: those Nature Based Solutions that most of all offer the greatest chance of success. They show us how the most futuristic technology and the intuition of self-generation can both contribute to the same end - the closing of the circle, the possibility of a perpetual system.

Image: Biosfera - Ocean Galaxy. Italy, 2021 © Luca Locatelli

Turin, at Gallerie d'Italia a journey through images through the Europe of sustainability

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