Chiara Baima Poma / Botto&Bruno / Paola De Pietri / Francesca Ferreri / Eva Frapiccini / Giulia Iacolutti / Marguerite Kahrl / Lala Meredith-Vula / Morigen Yan

Breathe In. Hold. Breathe Out.  inaugurates the gallery’s new space and marks a moment of transition, transforming it into an occasion for encounter and shared experience. It is an exhibition, but also a celebration: an invitation to inhabit a new space and to recognise the sense of time it evokes, turning it into a shared ritual.

In this sense, the celebration is not a noisy exception that interrupts everyday life. It is a shared time, removed from productivity, speed and urgency, creating space for encounter and presence. It is a moment in which a community comes together not simply to look, but to recognise itself through a shared experience.

The gallery has now found a new home within Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua, one of the few surviving Renaissance palazzi in Turin. Crossing its courtyard naturally slows the pace. The city remains just beyond the entrance, while the interior opens onto a space of quiet, contemplation and attention. Not a space removed from the world, but a place from which to return to it with greater awareness.

It is from this experience that the exhibition takes its title. Breathing marks life with an essential rhythm, shared by every living being: to breathe in, to hold, to breathe out. A simple gesture, often unconscious. Breath does not interrupt time; it reveals its rhythm. It reminds us that a pause is not a suspension of life, but the condition that makes it possible to continue observing and imagining.
The works brought together in the exhibition reflect the plurality of perspectives that has come to define the gallery’s programme. Through different media — photography, sculpture, sound, installation and video — the artists engage with some of the most pressing questions of our present: environmental transformation, conflict, migration, borders, and the fragility of political and social systems. They do not seek to represent the world exhaustively, nor to offer definitive answers. Rather, they open up a space for perception.

Each work in the exhibition carries its own history, yet together they become part of a broader narrative, capable of tracing a shared direction without relinquishing the plurality of individual practices. A perspective that holds memory and possibility, rootedness and transformation, in tension and dialogue.

Breathe In. Hold. Breathe Out. is an invitation.
To make time a practice of attention.
To share a moment of transition.
To celebrate the beginning of a new story through a shared breath.