Photography becomes a tool of memory, testimony, and civic reflection in Roberto Pili's exhibition Stato Migrante, hosted by the Foiso Fois Art and Music High School in Cagliari on the occasion of the Artists' Night.
The exhibition, curated by Giacomo Pisano, is housed in the former workshops in Piazza Martiri delle Foibe, historic sites restored to the city and now a symbol of cultural regeneration.
First presented in 2017 at the Jewish Ghetto in Cagliari, where it received widespread public and critical acclaim, Stato Migrante returns today in a renewed guise, imbued with new meanings thanks to the dialogue with a reborn space and with a school community devoted to artistic education and contemporaneity.
Since 2011, Roberto Pili has followed and documented migrant landings , allowing him to build a body of work with a strong human and visual impact. His photojournalist's gaze shifts away from the rhetoric of the emergency to focus on people: faces, gestures, and expectations.
The images tell not only the story of arrival, but the entire journey from disembarkation to the difficult social reintegration, thus restoring dignity and complexity to stories often reduced to numbers.
Migration thus emerges as an existential as well as political condition, an experience that crosses identities, territories, and borders.
Pili's photographic language, direct and unmediated, constructs an intense visual narrative, capable of challenging the viewer and stimulating profound reflection on the present.
The Open Day, scheduled for Thursday, January 29, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, officially inaugurates the Ex Officine del Foiso Fois as a new hub dedicated to creativity and training.