Statement:

Lessons of Freedom offers the audience the opportunity to discover a rich perspective of Iran without social, political and censorship borders. The source of inspiration for the curator was That other world, Nabokov and the enigma of exile, a text by Azar Nafisi.///

In the same way that the author decides to immerse herself with her students in the exploration of a new perception, Rischa Paterlini wishes to lead visitors to a different dimension, which encourages them to appreciate beauty even in the face of difficult situations.

“Why do we travel (if we travel)”? asks one of the artists featured in the exhibition, Gabriele Basilico. The answer seems to belong to these lines: “Even danger, like anguish, brings us closer to being, makes us embrace it, infuses us with terror, the common terror, of being about to lose it.

This wasn't what I was looking for. I wanted to begin to see what I was going to see, to encounter the arid, the non-answer." What he speaks to us about, the nonresponse, takes us back to travel in time to 1979, the year of Khomeini's revolution, in which everything changes.

The Islamic republic confiscates Iran's history, as well as its traditions, its culture, and the identity of each individual.