EXPOSED
Torino Photo Festival 2026
Laid Bare09.04–02.06.2026
29.05.2026

Talk with Paolo Ventura

Talk
Paolo Ventura, 2026 © Chiara Agostinetto
Paolo Ventura, 2026 © Chiara Agostinetto

Friday, May 29, 6:30 pm | CAMERA

 

The exhibition project Acrobats 2020–2025, curated by Paolo Ventura and Walter Guadagnini, will be the focus of this event. This is an opportunity to explore up close the distinctive style of his work, where photography and painting intertwine to create urban landscapes suspended between reality and imagination.

 

Paolo Ventura will recount the genesis of the project to the audience, starting with the meaning of the acrobatic gesture, which in his works transforms into a metaphor for the body as a place of precarious balance, for memory as a fragile construction, and for human bonds as a continuous exercise in adaptation and trust. From this constant tension between falling and resistance emerges a poetic reflection on the human condition, made all the more intense by the artist’s ability—as one of Italy’s most creative photographers—to construct visionary narratives capable of surprising and engaging the viewer.

Book signing to follow.

 

Speakers
Paolo Ventura, photographer
Rica Cerbarano, curator
Walter Guadagnini, artistic director of EXPOSED

 

Talks are free with EXPOSED Pass, and admission is open to the public until capacity is reached.