SediMenti

Portals between memory and the present. Sediments.

Inauguration

The inauguration is scheduled for July 24 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, with the chance to enjoy a free tasting tour dedicated to local products and the short supply chain.

The exhibition

There is a land that remembers with its body. That keeps track—in the layers of marl, in the rows of vines, in the nights marked by the moon—of every gesture that has crossed it.

“Sedimenti” is born from here: from a territory, the Langhe and Roero, that never stops depositing time upon time, image upon image.

The exhibition offers itself as a journey, not as a sequence of works to be viewed from a distance.

Imaginative portals open between past and present, where the same images find themselves transformed, almost unrecognizable yet faithful to themselves—a land that sees itself through the centuries, always remaining, obstinately, itself.

Some works ask to be physically crossed, not just observed.

They look like hard stone, they have its visual weight, its compact surface—but they yield softly under your step, like magic carpets that activate only by walking on them.

A perceptual deception that is also a promise: memory, when you truly cross through it, is never as rigid as it seems.

Elsewhere, the sky becomes matter.

Panels in real Langa stone compose the lunar phases—moons of Langa stone, where the very name of the moon, so central to the peasant calendar and the natural cycles of this territory, merges with the material that builds it.

The moon and the stone: two measures of Langa time, one in the sky, the other in the earth, here reunited in a single compositional gesture.

The exhibition closes with a quieter surfacing: digital images that dialogue, across a century of distance, with the gaze of Paul Scheuermeier.

At the heart of this surfacing is a tribute: the one Silvia Ruata pays to the extraordinary documentary corpus of Paul Scheuermeier, a Swiss linguist and philologist who in the 1920s traveled through rural Italy—and here, specifically, Piedmont—to capture its gestures, crafts, and material culture, which flowed into the monumental AIS Atlas “The Piedmont of the Peasants 1921-1932” (vol. II).

Scheuermeier’s original photographs—intimate and rigorous testimonies of wicker baskets, panniers, work tools, ancient gestures repeated over centuries—are not replicated here, but evoked: taken as a conceptual matrix, as a visual echo from which to germinate something new.

Through the generative use of artificial intelligence, the artist performs a leap in time, projecting those same scenarios into today’s contemporary world.

The tools of yesterday are thus found merged with the materials and contexts of the twenty-first century, in an investigation into how technological evolution has redefined—or sometimes alienated—our primordial relationship with the land and with work.

Silvia Ruata’s digital operation takes the form of a citationist and transformative practice: the algorithm does not sample the surface of the historical pixel, but reinterprets the anthropological archetype, restoring its spirit more than its form.

The works on display thus celebrate the value of collective historical memory, offering themselves as a visual bridge where the rural past and the synthetic future coexist, mirror each other, and question one another.

An immersive journey through images that layer over time, restoring the memory of a territory through its landscapes, its transformations and the lunar phases that mark its breath.

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