Āmēn

Nicole Pagliuca's project

Academic year

2025 - 2026

Āmēn traces how religious institutions have lost their central role for many young people, turning faith into a fragmented, solitary pursuit. The artist met individuals within their private spiritual spaces, capturing a shared sense of a generation praying alone. For today’s youth, religion is no longer a safe inheritance but a site of questioning - where fear of judgment keeps distance in place, even as an instinctive need for inner light and meaning grows stronger. 

 

The Searchlights is the second chapter of Ti vorrei dire, a three-year project developed in collaboration with Gallerie d'Italia - Torino, a part of Intesa Sanpaolo. The projects map out the urgencies of our time through the perspective of a new generation. Ecological and climate crises, dynamics of power and representation, identity, mental health, precarity, memory and narratives of the present run through the works, shaping a collective account that restores complexity to what is too often reduced to a label.

Curated by:
Carlotta Cattaneo, Daria Scolamacchia, Giulia Ticozzi
With teaching support from:
Luis Aniceto, Francesca Cirilli, Fabio Barile, Diego Fontana, Alessandra Foschi, Simona Taddeucci, Jacopo Loiodice, Céline Volonterio