Stones into bread renews the Museum’s focus on highland regions, often shaped by extraction processes and depopulation. This perspective is grounded in the work of anthropologist Vito Teti. Far from suggesting immobility, his concept of restanza (staying) is reimagined as a conscious choice to inhabit places marked by historical fractures or marginality. It is an invitation to remain with the problem – a refusal to seek comfort in easy solutions.

The exhibition weaves together works from the Mart Collections, site-specific interventions, public art, and off-site activities, unfolding as a constellation of “villages”, clusters of partial memories and silent architectures organised around fields of intensity. Latencies, where remnants and apparent absences emerge; Frictions, marked by incomplete archives, conflicts, and unresolved histories; Drifts, shaped by migrations and territorial discontinuity; and Reactivations, where performative practices connect traces to visitors’ presence.

Within these liminal spaces, the exhibition opens a threshold of inquiry. Even what seems inert – a stone, an abandoned place – may conceal something organic, something quietly alive and rising. What bread does each stone hold within?