Via San Francesco 22, Università degli Studi di Verona

 

As part of the Interno Verde – Giardini Aperti Verona festival, the San Francesco cloister of the University of Verona hosts Indesiderate. Residui, edited by Rebecca Canavesi, Pietro Fracassi, and Giacomo Segantin, with contributions by Beatrice Boaretto, Caterina Daprà, Mariam Ghattas, and Greta Ponzo.

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Unwanted. Residui is the second chapter of a project that intertwines interdisciplinary seminars, urban foraging workshops, and crop processing. Its starting point is the pigment of pokeweed berries — collected near the Padua train station and pressed at the Botanical Garden — which in the first iteration of the project had given rise to a series of filters for a light installation in the Cortile Nuovo of Palazzo Bo (Padua, December 2025).

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The cloister now welcomes what remains of that process: pokeweed extract oxidized by the heat of the projectors, seeds, cutouts, PET rolls, technical tests. Not a collection, but a threshold — that passage zone where the materials have not yet become something else and where their condition as remains brings with it a generative potential.

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Around these residues, free associations develop between essays and photographs, which touch on the themes of margin, resistance, vegetality, seasonality and decolonization. The exhibition is constituted as an open device, part of an ongoing process, which favors experimentation over formalization and the laboratory over the completed work.

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The project is the winner of the Sustainable Art Prize, awarded to Art Verona in collaboration with the University of Padua, the University of Verona, and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The evolution of Indesiderate will culminate in a publication published by Press Press in the second half of 2026.