Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Beyond the Walls.
Artistic Practices in Prison

Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo.
7 Oct. 2025, 5 pm

A panel discussion moderated by Laura Barreca.
Promoted by Movimento per la giustizia.

Palermo. Fondazione Sicilia

PALERMO, October 7, 2025, Fondazione Sicilia
Palazzo Branciforte, Sala dei 99, via Gae Aulenti, 2

Moderator: 
Laura Barreca

Introduciton:
– Maria Concetta Di Natale – President of Fondazione Sicilia
– Dario Greco – President of the Bar Association of Palermo
– Dino Petralia – former Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration and Secretary of the Movimento per la Giustizia – Art. 3 ETS
– Anna Galioto – President of the Palermo District of AMI (Associazione Avvocati Matrimonialisti Italiani)

Speakers:
– Giovanna Brambilla
– Francesco Urbano Ragazzi
– Filippo Giordano

A group of art curators, invited and moderated by Laura Barreca, will present their projects carried out within prison walls in various cities around Italy. Gathered in Palermo by Fondazione Sicilia, the curators will reflect on different artistic models through which confinement can become a starting point for co-creation processes. From the transformation of detention architectures to the invention of monumental devices capable of integrating, and sometimes transcending, the panopticon.
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi will delve into Adoration, a permanent artwork commissioned in 2022 from artist Pauline Curnier Jardin and developed in collaboration with the Women’s Prison of Giudecca and the Rio Terà dei Pensieri Cooperative. The curatorial duo will recount both the backstage and onstage dimensions of the project, describing a liturgy of art that engages with the dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion.

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