INSERZIONI
Curated by Francesco Manacorda
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
27 March – 23 August 2026

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea presents the second edition of Inserzioni, the semiannual commissions programme that introduces new commissions in active dialogues with the baroque galleries used to display the permanent collection, transforming them into a continuously evolving exhibition device. The project engages with the museum’s narrative by inviting contemporary artists to interact with the unfinished architecture of the Castello and the historical and symbolic layering of its rooms, creating unprecedented relationships between artworks, space, and memory.

Curated by Francesco Manacorda, with a presentation by Huda Takriti curated by Linda Fossati, this new edition of Inserzioni involves Gabriel Chaile, Lonnie Holley, and Huda Takriti, whose practices explore themes related to memory, genealogy, and the construction of collective narratives across different geographical and cultural contexts. Designed for specific decorated rooms, the works are integrated into the path of the Collection, periodically renewing its display and broadening its cultural perspective. Through these commissions, the Museum continues to rethink the canons of art history, embracing traditions and visions that critically question Western narratives.

The project is rooted in the original vocation of Castello di Rivoli as a place where the artist’s intervention is welcome, with its architecture becoming a generative starting point. Artists are invited to actively participate in shaping the Museum’s exhibition history, continuously redefining the significance of its cultural heritage.

Gabriel Chaile (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1985) presents an intervention around to the Castello’s medieval well, an element that connects the building to the hill on which it stands. The space is transformed into an environment suspended between historical diorama and sci-fictional scenario. In such environment, an anthropomorphic figure in clay interacts with sculptural elements evoking a makeshift encampment, suggesting a post-apocalyptic survival condition. Chaile draws intervenes directly in between fragments of historical frescoes present in the room with a drawing, evoking a cubist forest. Such genture weaves together remains of architectural and archeological nature with contemporary imagination, reflecting on history, identity, and transformation. Chaile’s practice is based on the concept of “genealogy of form,” according to which forms preserve cultural layers and traces of individual and collective memories. Made with clay, earth, and adobe, his sculptures draw inspiration from the artisanal traditions and indigenous cosmologies of northwest Argentina, evoking ancestral narratives and foundational processes of cultural transmission.