10. The Green You Don’t Expect

Over the last few weeks, following the launch of the projects for the third edition of Thinking Like a Mountain, I had the opportunity to attend three of the four performances scheduled up until May as part of the exhibition Fossi io teco; e perderci nel verde, curated by Greta Martina, winner of the 12th edition of the Premio Bonaldi. The experience of participating in these events was intense and led me to think about and rethink our idea of “nature.”

The fact that the artists opted for urban spaces for their performances, where history and architecture mingle with nature, without “fleeing” to the outskirts of the city in search of immersed green spaces, or even simply without favoring urban parks, made me wonder about this choice, which I initially found to be a curious one. And as is often the case, when something arouses one’s curiosity, questions soon follow. Why should we think of urban culture as something distinct from green nature? Why think of nature only in the limited dimension of city parks or mountainside woodlands?


Sara Fumagalli