Rossana Calbi is a curator, journalist, and cultural designer working across relational design, publishing, and contemporary art curation. Her research focuses on transforming words into visual and narrative devices capable of activating relationships, generating imaginaries, and creating dialogue between content, space, and community. Through her practice, she has conceived and curated exhibitions, festivals, and editorial projects, collaborating with artists, illustrators, and writers in a variety of contexts, ranging from independent publishing to exhibition spaces, with a particular focus on themes of identity, memory, the body, and cultural storytelling.
Apologia in strada [Street Apology] (2026)
Apologia in strada is a series of ten street photographs investigating the presence of neo-fascist propaganda in Rome’s Appio-Tuscolano district, with particular reference to the area surrounding Acca Larenzia.
The project observes posters not as a mere urban backdrop, but as a form of visual and symbolic occupation of public space: paper, glue, tears, and overlapping layers build a landscape that imposes languages, identities, and memory.
Through an aesthetic that recalls décollage and an approach combining documentation and intervention, the work makes visible what is often absorbed through habit, transforming the wall into a field of tension between propaganda, the body, and urban space.
