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Inner Rhythms

India, where bodies touch the ground

Castel Belasi

Castel Belasi is hosting an exhibition featuring over seventy photographs by Angelo Redaelli taken in India over the course of more than fifty years, from the 1970s to the present day. The exhibition explores the profound relationship between the body and the earth, offering a lived and symbolic vision of the soil.

In dialogue with the exhibition Signal from the Ground, linked to the Republic of Nauru’s first National Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, this exhibition brings together two complementary perspectives: on the one hand, a territory marked by the depletion of resources; on the other, images that bear witness to a still-vital bond between human beings and the environment.

Bodies, gestures, and rituals that inhabit the earth as a shared and symbolic space reveal a relationship with the soil that predates its reduction to a mere economic resource. Redaelli’s photographs depict people, animals, and landscapes in constant contact with the earth, understood not as a backdrop but as a place of relationships, memory, and belonging.

A Milanese photographer active since the 1970s, Angelo Redaelli is known for his work in stage, theater, dance, concerts, and performance photography. The works presented at Castel Belasi reveal a lesser-known body of work, characterized by an empathetic gaze capable of capturing everyday gestures, rituals, and moments of ordinary life.

Far from sensationalist approaches, the images construct a portrait of India through signs, practices, and relationships that span time. Tracing over half a century of transformations, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the gradual transition of the land from an inhabited ecosystem to an economic infrastructure.

The exhibition unfolds across the six rooms on the first floor of the castle and is complemented by a rich photo projection that enhances the exhibition’s content. The exhibition is further enriched by guided tours with the artist and a publication produced for the occasion.

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