From 2 to 24 March 2024 the Elpis Foundation presents the exhibition project 39° North 16°3' Est, a story which, starting from the geographical coordinates of Calabria, unfolds through two exhibitions: Symposium, collective exhibition of the results at the Archaeological Park of Sibari and the National Archaeological Museum of Amendolara, with the works of Arie Amaya-Akkermans, Simon DeReyer Bellouard, Cañadas & Murua, Beatrice Celli, Akshay Mahajan, Matilde Sambo and Traslochi Emotivi and the personal exhibition 'Nziembru, which presents a series of works unpublished works by the artist Fabrizio Bellomo.

The project will be inaugurated on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd March with a program of talks, performances and workshops aimed at introducing and exploring the contents of the exhibition starting from the works and testimonies of the participating artists.

Symposium was born as a return and in-depth analysis of the fourth edition of the In-ruins artistic residency, the first in collaboration with the Elpis Foundation, which took place in September 2023 at the Archaeological Park of Sibari and the National Archaeological Museum of Amendolara, in dialogue with the local communities.

On display are the works of residents Arie Amaya-Akkermans, Simon DeReyer Bellouard, Cañadas & Murua, Beatrice Celli, Akshay Mahajan, Matilde Sambo and Traslochi Emotivi reconfigured by the artists themselves, demonstrating that the creative process begun in Calabria has remained active and inspiring even after residency.

Among sculptures, installations, photographs and performances, the works that Simposio brings to Milan are: Necklace for Giantesses by Beatrice Celli, a series of imaginary archaeological finds that become traces of disturbing anatomies and possible female worlds, integrated by a set of rings created to the occasion of the exhibition; an excerpt from Simon DeReyer Bellouard's series of photographic collages, depicting contemporary chimeras, located between reality and fiction; The archive of the Invisible by Akshay Mahajan, which explores the deposits of the National Archaeological Museum of Amendolara and recounts the silent work of archivists, typographers, photographers and technicians. The exhibition continues with Irabis by Matilde Sambo, where clay sculptures of architectural inspiration rise and disperse among erosive bodies of water evoking intimate, planetary and geological destinies; Sedimentation of the Landscape by the duo Cañadas&Murua, which collects and condenses clues on the mutability and dynamism of the landscape due to time and human intervention; a new chapter of the performance Deposta by Traslochi Emotivi, which becomes the drift and home of a land, that of Calabria, which has no reconstruction except backwards, in the memory of custodians and guardians of an uninhabited and ghostly South where, however, it is still possible Act. Finally, the lecture-performance Go Straight to the Right, Having Kept Watch on All Things Very Well by Arie Amaya Akkermans which, coming together in a video, becomes a metaphor for the fundamental question that runs through the entire discussion proposed by Simposio: what is Lastly, an archaeological fact?