Projects

description: The exhibition Campo Luminoso is the result of five years of artist residencies in Sardinia. It offers a glimpse into our attempt to shed light on the “field,” understood not only as agricultural land but also as a space for connection, research, observation, and experimentation. Curated as part of the Ulassai Biennial of Contemporary Art, the exhibition establishes a dialogue with the site and, more broadly, with the rural areas of Sardinia and the world: territories that are vulnerable today, where every choice and every action contributes to reshaping their future. The exploration begins in the Oristano region and extends across various corners of the island, examining its landscape, architecture, and the traces of human and plant life, as well as its light and shadow. The works on display address key issues of contemporary rural life: depopulation, the relationship with the land and among people, and the fate of abandoned buildings. They highlight the tensions between polarities that coexist in the same places: absence and presence, emancipation and dependence, ambition and collapse, limitation and possibility. And perhaps it could only be here: in the spaces of the Stazione dell'Arte envisioned by Maria Lai in Ulassai, a symbol of the intimate connection between art, territory, and community.