“Si nasce ancora” — A Collective Exhibition at Pavart Gallery for Rome Art Week 2026

At the heart of the exhibition lies a reflection on birth as a foundational experience: every new life enters a world and a history that already exist, yet introduces a presence and a possibility capable of renewing them. In contrast to contemporary readings of natality that focus primarily on demographic data and socioeconomic difficulties, the project emphasizes its human and symbolic value — as openness, trust, and potential transformation. Welcoming a new life means accepting the unpredictability of the future and recognizing the importance of care, time, relationships, listening, and peace.

The curatorial text links this reflection to the idea of ethical progress, which cannot be measured by speed, growth, and efficiency alone, but requires us to ask what quality of life we want to make possible. Birth and art meet in the act of giving shape to something new out of matter, memory, and experience: the works on view can transform our way of seeing and open unexpected perspectives.

The exhibition does not offer a single answer to the questions raised by natality. Rather, it invites visitors to recover the wondering gaze of Pascoli’s fanciullino — the “little child” within us — and to recognize in every beginning the possibility of renewal.

Velia Littera, founder and director of Pavart, promotes an art that is ethical, sustainable, and socially engaged, with particular attention to the environment and human rights.