Finestre sull’altrove. 60 vedute per 60 rifugiati. At the Botanical garden
27.06.2025
Sixty views. Sixty stories. Sixty refugees who, together with architect and illustrator Matteo Pericoli, transformed a window into a visual and personal narrative. Finestre sull’altrove (Windows onto Elsewhere) is a project conceived by Bill Shipsey, founder of Art for Human Rights, and Matteo Pericoli, created between 2018 and 2021 in support of Amnesty International.
The exhibition, held at the Botanical Garden, will remain open until August 3.
The exhibition features sixty original drawings by Pericoli, each accompanied by the intimate story of someone who has experienced uprooting, loss, but also rebirth in a new land. The idea to bring this project to the Botanical Garden of Padua came from an intuition by Martina Bastianello, who saw a deep dialogue between the project and the garden’s plant heritage. Just like the trees so affectionately recalled in the stories of the refugees, the exhibition’s windows look out onto memories, identities, and hopes. Many write about the trees of their childhood and the new trees they see today: a green, living thread connecting past and present.
Admission is included with the regular entrance ticket.
