Paris – Until June 1, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris is hosting Identity Beyond Borders, an exhibition promoted by Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the 25th anniversary of the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection.

After earlier stops in Berlin, Vilnius, Valletta, and Belgrade, the travelling exhibition now arrives at the historic Hôtel de Galliffet, offering a reflection on how individual and collective identities evolve through memory, mobility, and cultural exchange.

The exhibition opens with Fibonacci by Mario Merz, a symbolic work introducing a vision of interconnected systems. The show is structured into three thematic sections: Roots of Resistance, Geographies of Displacement, and Unstable Ecologies.

The first section highlights body and language as tools of emancipation through works by Tomaso Binga, Carla Accardi, Ketty La Rocca, Maria Lai, and Elisa Montessori, alongside contemporary artists such as Elena Bellantoni and Marinella Senatore.

Geographies of Displacement explores identity as a fluid condition shaped by inner and external journeys. For the Paris edition, new works by Marta Roberti and Paola Gandolfi expand the dialogue, including Roberti’s animation-based series A Bee on a Crying Face (2025) and Gandolfi’s photographic self-portraits reflecting different stages of life as an archive of memory.

The final section, Unstable Ecologies, examines the fragile relationship between humans and the environment through works by Letizia Battaglia, Silvia Camporesi, Elena Mazzi, Laura Pugno, and Iginio De Luca.

The exhibition closes with Tomaso Binga’s sound installation of her 1976 poem I Am a Sheet of Paper, merging language, body, and politics into a poetic act of resistance. In Paris, a city shaped by cultural revolution and historical memory, the work resonates as a call to rethink identity as a living, critical space.