Conversational Tour

with Annalisa Metta and Ilaria Gianni

Annalisa Metta

Annalisa Metta is a full professor of Landscape Architecture at Roma Tre University. In 2007, she was one of the founding partners of the OSA design studio, with which she has produced numerous award-winning and published projects. She has conducted research in Italy and abroad and in 2016–17, was awarded the Italian Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She is the creator of installations and temporary gardens, including In stato di grazia, with Felice Cimatti (AMA, Maddaloni, 2025) and Every 9 days, in the group exhibition Regeneration (Rome, 2022) featuring works by Chiara Camoni. Co-editor of the volumes Coltiviamo il nostro giardino (DeriveApprodi, 2019) and Wild & The City: landscape architecture for lush urbanism (Libria, 2020), she is the author of Il paesaggio è un mostro. Città selvatiche e nature ibride (DeriveApprodi, 2022). She contributed the essay ‘Timekeepers: Artifices of Vagueness, Practices of Temperance’ to the catalogue Con te con tutto (NERO Editions, 2026).

Ilaria Gianni

Ilaria Gianni is an independent curator, art critic and lecturer whose interest centres on the study of semiotic-narrative structures in the visual arts, with a particular focus on forms of research that examine the interstices within belief systems. Her curatorial practice seeks to construct exhibition and exploratory platforms as forms of knowledge redistribution. She is co-founder of IUNO, a research centre for contemporary art, and of the Magic Lantern Film Festival, an event dedicated to the links between the visual arts and cinema. She is a lecturer at John Cabot University, IED (Rome), RUFA (Rome) and NABA (Milan). Over the years, she has contributed texts to numerous catalogues and journals. Together with Cecilia Canziani, she curated Chiara Camoni’s solo exhibitions: Gli immediati dintorni (Nomas Foundation, 2015) and Forra, fiorame, fogliame. Mondo di sopra, mondo di sotto. E piccole creature (IUNO, 2022).