Paris – Anticipation is building for the opening of the exhibition “Identità Oltre Confine”, the exhibition project promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Farnesina Collection, which will be inaugurated on April 9 at 6:00 pm at the Italian Cultural Institute. After stops in Berlin, Vilnius, Valletta and Belgrade, the project now arrives at the historic spaces of the Hôtel de Galliffet. Open to the public until June 1, the exhibition reflects on how individual and collective identities evolve over time through historical memory, mobility and processes of cultural translation. The exhibition path opens with Fibonacci by Mario Merz, a symbolic work of the Farnesina Collection that introduces an organic and interconnected vision of the world. Around this core, three thematic sections unfold: “Roots of Resistance,” “Geographies of Detachment” and “Unstable Ecologies”. In “Roots of Resistance,” the body and language become tools of emancipation through works by Tomaso Binga, Carla Accardi, Ketty La Rocca, Maria Lai and Elisa Montessori, in dialogue with artists of later generations such as Elena Bellantoni, Silvia Giambrone, Marinella Senatore and Loredana Di Lillo. The section “Geographies of Detachment” explores identity as a mobile and evolving condition. For the Paris edition, it is enriched with previously unseen works by Marta Roberti and Paola Gandolfi, selected specifically to engage with the Institute’s spaces. In this perspective, geographies are not only physical territories but also inner, psychological and relational landscapes — “landscapes of the soul” where memory, experience and imagination continuously redefine the sense of belonging. Roberti presents for the first time works from the animated video A Bee on a Crying Face, where human and animal figures evoke a relationship of listening and metamorphosis between species. Paola Gandolfi exhibits two photographic series drawn from the videos In Time for Temporal Changes and Urgent Urban Call, in which the artist stages herself at different stages of life, turning the body into an archive of memory and identity. The section “Unstable Ecologies” addresses the relationship between human beings and the environment through works by Letizia Battaglia, Silvia Camporesi, Elena Mazzi, Laura Pugno and Iginio De Luca, exploring the landscape as a fragile and ever-changing ecosystem. The exhibition concludes with a sound installation of the poem Io sono una carta (1976) by Tomaso Binga, intertwining language, body and politics in a poetic act of resistance. In the Parisian context—marked by the memory of social transformations and of 1968—Binga’s voice resonates as an invitation to rethink identity as a critical and generative space. Finally, on the occasion of the opening, Paola Gandolfi will present a performance titled In Time for Temporal Changes, conceived specifically for the exhibition, featuring alongside her the actress Cristina Spina, in the role of her mother, and Dominique Smersu, as her father. The performance brings three generations into dialogue, exploring the complex and layered relationship between family memory and identity. (9colonne)