Dialogic Places

Fondazione Morra Greco and the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples move into the thick of their partnership, introducing a series of events dedicated to the research and experimentation of second-level students at the Visual Arts Department.

By exhibiting artworks both of their own and co-created, students will be given the opportunity to compare and share artistic practices — all the while offering a different take on a distinct space of Fondazione, the basement, within a framework of dialogue and research to be named Dialogic Places.

Grown out of an intuition by Rino Squillante, coordinator of the Visual Arts Department and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, Dialogic Places intends to position itself as a space of relation, production and experimentation within the external mechanisms that influence creative behavior and the processes that condition identity, culture and education.

Each exhibit will see a pair of students presenting two works: one individual and another to converse with each other and the basement around them — a place of temporal, material and cognitive exploration — to finally produce a collective work that breaks any hint of individuality. Dialogic Places stands as a dynamic laboratory of artistic research and experimentation: here, the exhibition is one of many forms able to cut through the interactions between space, identity and creation, thus allowing students to explore the complexities — both individual and collective — of the creative process.

EXHIBITIONS

JUNE 12, 2025 | 4:30 PM
SARA PINTO – ROBERTO ROLLO

Sara Pinto and Roberto Rollo present a body of work that weaves together memory, perception, and material. Pinto’s research focuses on family photo archives, reworking old wedding photographs into visual narratives printed on traditional bridal fabrics, creating a hybrid between archive, memory, and domestic tradition. Rollo explores the intangible through painting, engaging with appearance and perception by juxtaposing physical materials and ephemeral forms. Together, for Dialogic Places, they present Opposite-in: an inaccessible curtain that becomes a space for reflection on the visible and the unspoken, evoking intimacy and personal stories projected onto its surface.

JUNE 19, 2025 | 5 PM
LEILA COSTANZO – ALFONSO RUSSO

Leila Costanzo, lecturer in Theory of Perception and Gestalt Psychology, and Alfonso Russo, a master’s student in Painting, share an artistic practice focused on the transformation of matter and the dialogue between form and time. Costanzo creates sculptures that embody processes of balance and transformation, while Russo develops works in which matter is shaped by organic processes, exploring the relationship between forms and their recognition over time. In Traccia Madre, a collaborative project conceived for Dialogic Places, the two artists experiment with the encounter of different forms, generating sculptural compositions that reflect the complexity of reality.

JULY 3, 2025 | 5 PM
GENNARO GIULIANO – MARTINA PICONE

Ti prometto che il mare ci unirà di nuovo is the title of the joint work conceived by Gennaro Giuliano and Martina Picone for the third Dialogic Places exhibition. It fuses video and performance together to explore the theme of the sea, in all its ever-generating and ever-destroying force. In fact, the research of the two young artists, both students of the Master of Arts in Painting, delves deep into the concepts of presence and absence, both themes where the body plays a main role.

JULY 10, 2025 | 5 PM
RAIMONDO COPPOLA – ELENA MERIANI

The last Dialogic Places exhibition for the summer sees Raimondo Coppola, a phd student in Innovation Technologies and New Materials for Art, and Eleonora Meriani, a student at the two-year specialist program in Painting, confront each other. Together they present Errore di sistema, an installation that redefines error and explore the fragility of natural balances when they come into contact with human presence. Their research, in fact, is concerned with the separation between human and nonhuman, and the limits imposed by both human and artificial vision: while Coppola performs a topographical survey of the human body, showing the microorganisms living on the skin but still invisible to the naked eye, Meriani brings to the forefront the visualization of places that escape the gaze of satellites. Tracing these “system errors” allows the creation of new mappings, new lands, and new visions.

The project is co-financed with funds derived from Piano Strategico Cultura e Turismo 2024/2025 – Progetto Global Forum Mostre d’arte contemporanea EDI 2025.