EXHIBITION OLIVO BARBIERI "tOUR" 26.6-16.11.2025, BIBLIOTECA MALATESTIANA, CESENA

arneo

arneo explores a part of the Salento region in southern Italy, shaped by profound historical, social, and environmental transformations linked to the land reform and peasant struggles of the 1950s. Twelve photographers investigate the Arneo as a complex, fragile, and layered space, suspended between memory and new tensions arising from tourism and rural abandonment. The project unveils a landscape of traces, fragments, and subtle signs that narrate the lives of its communities and territories. The images – spanning recent photographic campaigns and previously unpublished archives – offer a collective and democratic reading, capable of questioning the present and envisioning new scenarios for the future. Photographers involved: Guido Guidi, Michele Buda, Cosimo Calabrese, Corrado Catania, Michele Cera, Francesco Conti, Giammario Corsi, Costantino Forte, Carmelo Roberto, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, Samuele Vincenti. arneo is a project promoted and supported by Regional Council of Puglia.

Edited by Stefania Rössl, Guido Guidi
Graphic design Damiano Fraccaro / Otium
Printer Grafiche Antiga
Publisher Claudio Grenzi, 2025
Texts Giancarlo Greco, Stefania Rössl, Filomena Ranaldo, Giuseppe Calò and Jessica Niglio