from March 22nd to May 10th, 2026
Image: Ylenia Bruzzese, Blue Church Italy, 2015
From the Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication to the photographs exhibited in Minusio: the images of four young photographers who studied at SUPSI intersect and enter into dialogue with one another.
The title of the exhibition, Sulla Terra (On Earth), draws inspiration from a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, the Iranian poet, writer and filmmaker who contributed decisively to the renewal of twentieth-century Persian literature. In her verses, the human being is “on Earth” not as a dominator, but as a fragile and rooted presence nourished by light, wind and waterm – one that desires and suffers. This image becomes the key to interpreting the entire exhibition, serving as a guiding thread connecting the photographic works.
Curated by Reza Khatir, who followed the four artist-photographers closely as a lecturer and thesis advisor during their studies at SUPSI, the exhibition presents works that share an attentive and sensitive way of being in the world: a physical and mental relationship with what is observed, an act of listening to reality, memory, the body and space. On Earth thus becomes a posture, a way of inhabiting the present and maintaining balance.
Despite the diversity of approaches and subjects, the four projects on display share the same quality of gaze: patient, curious and rooted in the world. None of the photographers imposes a thesis; instead, each chooses to listen: to an abandoned place, a body in motion, a perceptual landscape, or a community suspended between past and present.
Reza Khatir describes the origin of the project as an act of listening and recognition: “This exhibition does not aim to be a synthesis, but rather a fragment, a first gesture, in the hope that it may open the way to other opportunities and other voices”.
In selecting the artists and shaping the exhibition, Khatir privileged the multiplicity of perspectives over thematic coherence. What connects the four works is neither a shared subject nor a style, but a common attitude: that of photographing as one inhabits a place, with presence and attention.
The exhibition therefore becomes a journey through abandoned places, bodies suspended in the air, photographs that stage the act of seeing itself, and fragments of lives that raise questions about the present and about our way of being on Earth.
The opening of the photographic exhibition On Earth will take place on Sunday 22 March 2026 at 17:00 at the Centro Elisarion in Minusio (via Rinaldo Simen 3). The exhibition can be visited Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00 until Sunday 10 May (closed from 3 to 12 April) as part of the spring season of MinusioCultura.