'Ecosystems as Living Communities II' Now Open at Cittadellarte, Biella

In conversation with Eliza Collin and Emma Zerial during the residency. Courtesy Unidee.

The exhibition is now open! Over the past three months, designers and researchers Eliza Collin (UK) and Emma Zerial (IT) have engaged with alpine ecosystems through fieldwork, conversations, archival research, and exchanges with experts and local communities. Through filmic and sonic practices, the projects explore mountain territories as living communities shaped by complex relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.

In Crossing the Middle Meadow, Eliza reflects on high-altitude meadows as spaces of adaptation and ecological resilience in a rapidly changing climate. In Echoing the Blue Stone, Emma investigates Punta Corna in the Italian Western Alps, exploring the relationship between extraction, technology, and territory through practices of situated listening.

Two new films, photographs, traces of archival research, and a new catalogue with my text and an interview with the artists are now on view at Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, Biella, until September 3.