The Director of the Lazio Regional Museums Directorate Stefano Petrocchi in collaboration with the Contemporary Cluster art gallery, presents a group exhibition curated by Lorenzo Madaro on Sunday 7 May 2023 at 11.00 Bringing everything home, at the Roman Ships Museum in Nemi with works by twenty-three contemporary artists from all over Italy. At a time when in the exhibition dimension the relationship between the ancient and the contemporary is at the center of the curatorial reflections of the present, the exhibition project "Bringing everything back home" – here the title of an extraordinary novel by Nicola Lagioia is borrowed – proposes a choral encounter between Italian artists of different geographies and experiences, attitudes and background stories, in dialogue with the architecture and the collection of the Museo delle Navi Romane in Nemi, through installations, paintings, sculptures, video art and other languages ​​capable of generate a further reading of a major theme: memory. This is declined through fragments, visions, imaginative proposals, shreds of materials through which the artists involved elaborate a personal vision that is associated with the large repertoire of found objects, elements unearthed during important archaeological excavations in recent decades, with which they share a possible sometimes contradictory familiarity.

The public is invited to move freely in the space, looking for possible scenarios. The works make themselves loved in the complexity of the path, the visitor must find them among the surfaces the perimeters that welcome finds of underwater archeology, dense traces of decades of research experiences aimed at the reconstruction of different stories at the basis of Western culture. It is a dense load of suggestions, anger, poetry, planning, dialectical differences, rituals and complexity that characterizes the choral sense of this exhibition; like the protagonists of Lagioia's novel on an existential front, however, the invited artists - through the sharing of their own experiences with the telluric and marine sign of this special place of archeology that opens up to the present - are open to change, even traumatic , language and research. The Director of the Museo delle Navi Romane Daniela De Angelis underlines how the Museo delle Navi Romane is experiencing a season of renewed valorisation activity on several fronts, so that it is increasingly seen as a welcoming place, open to all and for all, and not a container of old and dusty objects. The realization of projects shared with the territory represents the heart of the mission of the Lazio Regional Museums Directorate and of territorial museums such as that of Nemi, therefore the project of a contemporary art exhibition that integrates with the permanent exhibition of the Museum falls within this conception of new ways of enhancing the Museum and its collections.