{"id":17398,"date":"2025-10-14T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it\/?page_id=17398"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:19:47","slug":"hidden-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/events\/hidden-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"353\">Starting on <strong>October 15<\/strong>, Palazzo Massimo will host the photographic exhibition <strong><em data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"151\">Hidden Collections<\/em> by Giorgio Di Noto<\/strong>, curated by<strong> Alessandro Dandini de Sylva<\/strong>, with the coordination of <strong>Agnese Pergola<\/strong>, who has designed an installation that engages in dialogue with the works and spaces of the Museum.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"1152\">The exhibition is part of a broader photographic commission project won by the Museo Nazionale Romano through the<strong> <em data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"496\">Strategia Fotografia 2024<\/em><\/strong> call, promoted by the <strong>Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.<\/strong> For this project, photographer Giorgio Di Noto carried out a visual investigation into the Museum\u2019s invisible heritage.<br data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"725\" \/>The project focuses on spaces that are usually inaccessible to the public, such as the photographic archive, storage rooms, and restoration laboratories. <em data-start=\"879\" data-end=\"899\">Hidden Collections<\/em> approaches <strong>archaeology as a critical device<\/strong>\u2014like photography itself\u2014capable of selecting, isolating, and interpreting. The image thus becomes a tool for questioning memory and testimony, challenging the boundary between the visible and the invisible.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1872\">At the heart of the exhibition lies the <strong>photographic archive of the Museo Nazionale Romano<\/strong>, housed in Palazzo Massimo, explored as a genuine archaeological site where photographs become artifacts to be unearthed and re-mediated. The project delves into themes of concealment, isolation, and masking. The processes of reproducing and cataloguing artifacts become subjects of inquiry in their own right: masks, erasures, and other techniques devised to isolate and clarify the photographed object end up generating new layers of meaning. What was meant to remain an invisible background takes on presence; what was a mere technical act becomes a critical gesture, revealing unexpected possibilities for interpretation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1874\" data-end=\"1940\">The project is accompanied by a publication edited by <strong>Quodlibet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1942\" data-end=\"1972\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beniculturaliit-my.sharepoint.com\/:f:\/g\/personal\/mn-rm_eventi_cultura_gov_it\/EiSZy9skVR1Il8t3pmMqLBABZE9LeS0YjT7qgcxmKU21cA?e=gOE13R\">Download the press kit here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1974\" data-end=\"2013\"><a href=\"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foglio-di-sala-Hidden-Collections-1.pdf\">Download the exhibition leaflet here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2015\" data-end=\"2246\">On <strong>October 29<\/strong>, a conference will also be held on the relationship between art, photography, archaeology, and archives, curated and moderated by Alessandro Coco, with the participation of scholars and professionals from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on October 15, Palazzo Massimo will host the photographic exhibition Hidden Collections by Giorgio Di Noto, curated by Alessandro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":18988,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17400,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17398\/revisions\/17400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}