Echi di Terra – Forms at the Border

An exhibition between nature, memory, and matter

Echi di Terra – Forms at the Border is a contemporary art collective exhibition established in 2025 in Torrita Tiberina, a small village in the Tiber Valley within the metropolitan city of Rome, on the edge of the Roman Sabina. Conceived and curated by multimedia visual artist Anna Maria Angelucci, the exhibition explores the relationship between humanity and the environment, our connection to the land, and the blurring of boundaries between applied and conceptual art. The exhibited works are born from natural materials—clay, wood, textile fibers, rope, rattan—and traverse nature and culture, tradition and experimentation, responding to the urgent need to restore an authentic bond with nature and raw materials.

The setting: Castello Baronale-Palazzo Savelli

The main venue for the exhibition is the Castello Baronale-Palazzo Savelli, located at Via Aldo Moro 1, a historic building that dominates the village of Torrita Tiberina overlooking a bend in the Tiber. The castle also houses the Me.Mo., a historical archive and documentation center dedicated to Aldo Moro, who rests in the cemetery of Torrita Tiberina: a presence that lends significant historical and cultural depth to the exhibition path.

The artists and their languages

The 2026 edition brings together ten artists: Anna Maria Angelucci, Simonetta Imperiali, Eleonora Colletti, Patrizia Fenucci, Daniele Giacomini, Maurizio Gualdi, Anna Netri, Alessandra Cecca, Thomas Spielmann, and Sergio Capilupi. Their artistic languages range from ceramics to fresco detachment, from sculpture to installations, using wood, textile fibers, rope, mixed media, hyper-realistic techniques, rattan, digital photography, and video art: an intertwining of contemporary practices and artisanal wisdom that gives form to the theme of boundaries.

The dual path: from Torrita Tiberina to Nazzano

The exhibition unfolds in two stages. The first, from May 9 to June 14, 2026, occupies the halls of the Castello Baronale in Torrita Tiberina; the second, from June 20 to 28, 2026, moves to the temporary exhibition hall of the Museo del Fiume in Nazzano, in Piazza della Rocca, in the heart of the Nazzano Tevere-Farfa Regional Nature Reserve. An itinerary that ideally links art and the river landscape, taking the works from the historic village to the protected area that guards the ecosystem of the Tiber and Farfa rivers.

Collateral events: the Tevere Book Festival

During the exhibition period, the castle also hosts the Tevere Book Festival (June 12-14, 2026), three days of literary meetings promoted by the Nazzano Tevere-Farfa Nature Reserve, which enrich the exhibition with a further cultural dimension.

A regional project in Lazio

Promoted with the patronage of the Municipality of Torrita Tiberina, in collaboration with Art Side Torrita Tiberina and the Nazzano Tevere-Farfa Regional Nature Reserve, the exhibition is a virtuous example of cultural enhancement for the small villages in the province of Rome and the Lazio Region: contemporary art becomes an opportunity to discover the Tiber Valley, its river landscapes, and its historical memory.