Terrasìa,
breathing earth Reminder of the invisible
April 16-30, 2026
Orto Bistrot - NaturaSì
Piazza Ippolito Nievo 37, 00153 Rome
Curated by APS Gart-GardenArt
INAUGURATION Thursday, April 16, 6:00 PM
The exhibition is an invitation to rediscover the profound connection between humans and nature, through the photographs of Ilaria Turini, the ceramic sculptures of Eugenia Querci, and two organic masks by Anna Nunzi; artistic languages capable of evoking subtle, invisible, and vital dimensions of the world around us. A sensitive journey that focuses on the breath of the earth, its memory, and its relationship with interiority.
Every Thursday: April 16-23-30, 2026 6:00 PM - Music, book, and poetry sessions
On April 24, we will participate with the exhibition in: RAW - RomeArtWeek for PEACE
This series stems from a reflection on the relationship between body and nature, specifically on how identity is not something fixed, but rather constantly evolving. Here, the body is never completely defined: sometimes it hides, sometimes it blends with natural elements such as grass, branches, or flowers. This is because I'm interested in exploring the idea of fluidity, an identity without precise boundaries that changes, adapts, loses itself, and finds itself again. Nature, in this sense, is not merely a backdrop, but becomes an active presence, almost an extension of the body itself. It welcomes and, at the same time, transforms. The work reflects a reflection on the earth: on the natural cycle, on growth, on organic matter. Some photographs evoke an almost agricultural imagery, where the body can be sown, covered, nourished, or re-emerge. In this sense, the relationship with nature is not at all idealized, but physical, made of contact, exchange, and even inevitable transformations. Here, everything is evoked through gesture, ritual: some images may seem staged, almost theatrical, yet they don't intend to tell a specific story. Rather, they suggest a state, a sensation. A moment suspended between control and abandon.
Ilaria Turini
Born in Rome in 1985. After studying Contemporary Art History at Sapienza University, she discovered photography, which quickly became her expressive medium. In 2013, she completed a three-year program at the Roberto Rossellini School as a Photographic Communication Operator, specializing in analog photography and darkroom techniques. In 2014, she furthered her education with a wedding photography course and training as a theater lighting designer. That same year, she earned a certificate in "Documentary Profession: Techniques and Tools for Witnessing Reality." Over time, she has enriched her training with workshops dedicated to production and visual narration, spanning storytelling and reportage. For Ilaria, photography is a continuous process of research: every day she explores, imagines, and writes with light, in an effort to understand who she is and discover new worlds.
Eugenia Querci is an art historian and curator with years of experience in research and exhibition planning. After teaching at Sapienza University and earning a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in recent years she has devoted herself passionately to ceramic art, which has opened new paths, generating unexpected encounters and discoveries. She has exhibited her works at Arte in Nuvola and in independent spaces during RAW (Rome Art Week). Her latest sculptures arise from a desire to make ceramic a light, luminous, and vibrant material. Undefined forms that evoke a multitude of natural elements: memories of moving leaves, algae, blooms, marine concretions, wings raised by the wind. Each work arises from a play on memory, from perceptual combinations, from letting go of the flow of imagination to create something that seems but isn't, that suggests without defining, that allows its inner light to grow and expand.
Anna Nunzi is an emerging illustrator and printmaking student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Her research in recent years has focused on circus arts, along with sustainable artistic practices, such as recycling materials and designing workshops in nature and communities.
Silent presence
Figures emerge from the material without definition: a body that becomes breath and landscape, leaves immersed in darkness welcome the passage of luminous beings difficult to grasp, a horse appears as a human clavicle. Man, nature, and the animal world merge.
Dancing a sowing
Dancing a sowing is a ritual and metaphorical act that unites agricultural gestures with the celebration of life, symbolizing care, fertility, and a connection with nature. Anciently propitiatory, it evokes the fluid gestures of planting, transforming work in the field into a harmonious and conscious movement.
Terrasìa
Essential and suspended, this image of a slender stem emerging from the darkness against the light depicts life as an expression of poetry and wonder. Presences, existences that we often fail to see except under certain conditions. The invisible reveals itself only to a careful eye.
Mulching
After planting trees, in permaculture, the soil is covered with straw to protect it. The main benefits include reducing weeds, retaining moisture, protecting from frost, and improving soil structure. In the photo, we can perceive a sense of intense, almost chaotic transformation: the body loses definition and the human becomes one with nature.
Memento mori
A child finds an animal skull. The wild becomes a tool for exploring the mystery of life. We discover that life and death are intertwined: dying is transformed into an anatomical and symbolic vision of something beyond the visible.
Fioretta
A close-up, very intimate shot of my grandmother Fioretta. I owe much of my love and respect for nature and all animals to her. The gesture of bringing flowers to my mouth creates a direct connection between the body and nature.
Dancing a freedom
Two people dance in masks. This causes them to lose their identity, which opens up to the possibility of being undefined, suspended, and fused with nature. A new, perhaps more conscious, form of presence. An opening toward the relationship between us, nature, and symbols.
The "Night" Series
State of Mind - One Night
The shutters of an old country house invite us to gaze through a time that flows, almost unstable, liquid. The internal/external relationship (identity/nature) becomes more present here. Nature appears as something we think of as external but perceive within ourselves. Night is the time when everything becomes more subtle, silent, mystical, and anticipated.
Organic Masks by Anna Nunzi
Protectors of the Forest and Leaves
Technique: handmade recycled paper, Japanese paper, cardboard, natural glue.
hese masks are the protectors of the forest and its leaves. Those who embody them by wearing them return to themselves and their inner being.
Ceramic sculptures by Eugenia Querci
Lights of shadow, 2025
Red clay, engobe, glaze
Like a shell that suddenly opens and calls for attention, reflection, and self-care. Light and darkness do not exist without each other.
Sessile corollas, 2025
Red clay, engobe, glaze, cold patina
These imaginary, irregular corollas, grafted onto a solid, dark body like leather, protect and guard the light, which slowly unfolds and calls for a calibrated expansion of our deepest self.
Floating, 2025
Red clay, engobe, glaze
Nature emerges through unpredictable processes of memory that recombine fragments of the visible into new forms, material presences that aspire to lightness, fluctuation, and letting go.
Flourishing, 2025
Red clay, engobe, glaze
Blooms, concretions, underwater bodies that emerge from a center, deep within, and vibrate. A palpable, soft light that caresses the gaze.
Time of Pan/2, 2024
Fireclay, pigment, brass wire
The wind rustling through the leaves, the swaying reeds, the sound of nature as a constant movement, a call to authenticity and an invitation to rediscover harmony with the planet.
