Ilaria Vinci's practice explores what she herself calls "the zone of fantasy". His I work weaves narratives of fantastic realism, imagining alternative realities. The artist uses speculative fiction as a tool for thinking about methodologies alternatives of world building. Ask me no more if east or west, the phoenix builds her spicy nest (2021) is an installation widespread in the rooms of Palazzo Re Rebaudengo. The footsteps of the phoenix, unexpected encounters for the audience visiting the Palaz zo, they let a fantastic imaginary into the building, opening new gates between worlds that allow the phoenix to roam free, while remaining invisible. Beneath its surface, the earth hides many things, including magical stories that sometimes res they are hard to believe, stories that are handed down from one generation to the next, making survive traditions that would otherwise be lost.