Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance
conceived and developed with
nonlineare, independent curatorial initiative
Opening
Saturday March 21st, 2026
from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
© Francesco Squeglia
Fondazione Made in Cloister and nonlineare, independent curatorial initiative present the new group exhibition inaugurating the second year of the biennial program REBIRTH, conceived and developed by nonlineare, independent curatorial initiative.
The exhibition continues the Foundation’s research path, that explore the relationship between contemporary artistic practices, space, community and cultural production, in dialogue with the 16th-century Cloister of the Church of Santa Caterina a Formiello, a symbol of transformation and urban regeneration.
The exhibition
Exhibition duration: from March 21st to June 21st, 2026
Days and opening times:
Wed - Sat: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Ticket 5 euro
Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance is a proposal to reflect on persistence - as an archive of survival, a practice of mutual aid and an ethical imperative; ultimately, as an obstinate commitment to repair and to mend what was broken. The exhibition looks at love as a sprawling landscape of vulnerability, error, and deliberate impurity, framing it as the labor of “un-despair” and asking how to conjure agency - however tenuous - in the face of polymorphous adversity.
The exhibition is underpinned by a research project developed by architect Mariano Cuofano on the ancient spatial configurations and pathways of the Cloister, which is translated in a reconfiguration of the exhibition layout and visitor routes, in dialogue with the historical structure of the complex.
