Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes

“Bodies and Cities. Performative Urban Landscapes” is the title of the exhibition set up in the spaces of the Museum of Classical Art at Sapienza University of Rome from May 29 to June 30, 2025.

Conceived and curated by Gianni Celestini, Giulia Marino, and Annalisa Metta, the exhibition explores the centrality of the architectures of behavior – the ways in which the bodies that inhabit and traverse the city define and configure its spaces – in different fields of contemporary culture, including landscape design, photography, sociology, and visual arts. The intent is to describe the performativity of the urban public space of our time, reading and interrogating the city as a social and spatial pact, a compage of existences and therefore of bodies, individual and collective, human and non-human, that preside over and configure its shared space.