Petricore (Petrichor)
Visconti castle, Pagazzano, Italy
Curated with Lorenzo Valota and Giulia Galiano

"PETRICORE" was the second edition of the contemporary festival in the Visconti castle in Pagazzano. The project involved 15 artists, and was opened by a theatrical and performative event. "Petrichor" is the term that indicates the smell of the rain, alluding to an olfactory entity that springs precisely from the contact of falling rain with dry soil, stones, asphalt, an odorously chemical reaction after storm, a fresh and mysterious aura. It is the spirit of the mountain that is projected into the air, the essence of the plain condensed in fog, the life deposited in the dewdrops. The exhibition was both a tribute and a celebration of inner and emotional bonding between the places and the human being who lives and transforms inside them.
During the exhibition’s opening the theatrical group “Atipica teatrale” was involved and they performed a piece in local dialect. After that, one of the artist involved in the exhibition, Carla Nigro, read an authorial and poetic text.