Torino Artscape is Artissima’s column highlighting current exhibitions in the city’s leading contemporary art institutions: a regular feature offering a glimpse into the most compelling exhibition programs, curatorial visions, and artistic expressions that animate Turin’s contemporary art scene. Torino Artscape invites you to explore Turin as an essential destination for art lovers, offering inspiration and cultural enrichment throughout the year.
This new episode is dedicated to Almanac.
Cristina Lavosi. E non dono celeste
Up to 15.05.2026
A vivid electric blue light cuts through the space, transforming it into a suspended, almost nocturnal dimension. Seated on modular wooden structures, visitors watch images unfold slowly, while blue hanging fabrics marked with white drawings and writing seem to redefine the environment as a place of passage and collective listening. It is an installation that invites pause rather than detached contemplation, where the time of the work coincides with that of relationships and reciprocal attention. Cristina Lavosi’s videos unfold in the same way: without imposing definitive answers, but opening up spaces for confrontation, doubt, and possibility.
E non dono celeste, Lavosi’s first solo show in Italy, is on view at Almanac in Turin until May 15. Through two new audiovisual works developed through workshops, shared practices, and participatory processes, the artist reflects on the role of institutions in constructing dominant narratives and legitimizing punitive logics, while questioning how forms of coexistence alternative to isolation and punishment might be imagined. Installed within a display conceived as a space for encounter, the two films approach transformative justice from different perspectives: a community-based framework for addressing conflict that seeks to confront the root causes of harm and foster collective responsibility, rejecting isolation and individual erasure.
In Cinque lire di stelle, produced in collaboration with ULIT, documentary language intertwines with filmic experimentation to convey everyday practices of listening, mediation, and self-education. A tuning fork runs through the film as both a symbolic and sonic device: an instrument for “bringing voices into tune,” but also a metaphor for the effort required to build trust and sustain relationships capable of holding vulnerability and error. Cos’altro, cos’altro c’è nella città gioiosa?, developed through a workshop with adolescents and young adults from the MaTeMù popular school in Rome and inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, takes the form of a collective Super 8 short film in which utopia, privilege, and violence are explored through theatre exercises, writing, and shared filming practices. Without idealising the idea of community, Lavosi shows how building spaces of trust requires time, contradiction, and continuous work: not a heavenly gift, but a slow and collective process.
– Text by Guia Agazzi