09. Like interweaving threads

Within the recently inaugurated exhibition "Fossi io teco; e perderci nel verde", perhaps better than others, Valentina Viviani’s work—"El deseo de transformarse en montaña para abrazar el cielo" (“The desire to turn into a mountain to embrace the sky”, 2025)—embodies the notion of the mountain as an archetype of natural cyclicity and as a symbol of generational continuity, characteristic of the entire Biennial of the Orobie Mountains. The further we continue with the implementation of the program, the more I feel I can say that what binds together the works of the artists and communities involved is precisely the reflection on life cycles, approached here from various perspectives, both human and “more-than-human” (to quote Anna Tsing again).

Lorenzo Giusti