A project by: Loredana Galante and Anna Nutini
Dates: June 27 – July 19, 2026
Venue: Casa di Rigoletto – Piazza Sordello 23 – Mantua, Italy
Artists: Elisa Cella, Loredana Galante, Anna Nutini, Vania Elettra Tam
Catalogue essay by: Anna Chiara Cimoli
Opening: Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 6:30 PM
In collaboration with: UBIK Cultural Association
Under the patronage of: Municipality of Mantua
Graphic design: MetAlternativa
Opening hours: Daily from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Information: info@infopointmantova.it – +39 0376 288208
On the occasion of the opening:
- Theatrical reading by Silvia Sala from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- Nature soundscape specially created in the Municipality of Mantua by the Bosco Post Industriale Association
Four artists, four visions, one invitation: slow down, observe, get lost. This exhibition is a sensory and reflective journey that celebrates art as an experience rather than a destination. A journey without a fixed goal, where the creative act becomes an expression of freedom, maturity, and wonder. Not a race, but a walk through the soul of art.
“The only way to be in harmony with life is to be at odds with ourselves,” writes Fernando Pessoa in The Book of Disquiet. The title of the exhibition, Taking Long Walks Just Because We’re Tired of Walking, stems from this celebrated passage. The group exhibition brings together the artistic research of Elisa Cella, Loredana Galante, Anna Nutini, and Vania Elettra Tam within the spaces of Casa di Rigoletto in Mantua.
The project originates from the idea of disquiet, transforming it into a plural, open, and dynamic dimension: no longer a totalizing and static condition, but rather a constellation of possibilities, deviations, and inner movements capable of generating relationships, inquiry, and transformation.
The works on display explore different yet deeply interconnected visual languages. Bodies, objects, geometries, fragments of everyday life, and references to art history interact and contaminate one another within an exhibition conceived as a shared organism rather than a simple juxtaposition of individual artistic practices.
Elisa Cella’s geometries open onto possible cosmogonies that move from scientific observation toward re-enchantment; Loredana Galante’s works preserve a poetic tension that invites the gaze to linger beyond the surface; Anna Nutini stages twisted yet profoundly liberated bodies immersed in paradoxical everyday architectures; Vania Elettra Tam intervenes with irreverent irony on the memory of images and the objects of our lives, dismantling and reassembling them into new narratives.
The exhibition thus weaves a relational fabric in which the feminine emerges not as a fixed category, but as a poetic and political gesture of openness, listening, and crossing boundaries. Like an open musical score, the works converse with one another, generating unexpected harmonies and new spaces of proximity.
Accompanying the opening will be a theatrical reading by Silvia Sala from The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa, together with an environmental sound intervention specially created by the Bosco Post Industriale Association, an organization committed to the environmental regeneration of the Mantua area.
The exhibition’s “long walks” are neither an escape nor a form of disorientation; rather, they become an exercise in attentiveness, a way of traversing uncertainty, and an opportunity to encounter the Other who knocks at the door.