On October 4, "A riva" reaches its conclusion along the promenade of Cannobio, a town overlooking the Piedmont shore of Lake Maggiore. This urban intervention brings together installations by Joshua Venturino, Alberto Montorfano, and Umberto Pellini, alongside a performative action conceived by Giuliana Paolino and Cecilia Carmine.

Taking as a starting point the image of a half-submerged pier, the artists explore our relationship with the Other. "A riva" inhabits the in-between, the shoreline, that fragile threshold between water and land. From the beach, the gaze inevitably drifts toward the lake, whose murky waters hold stories and secret languages. Here, the act of looking becomes an exercise in patient waiting, transforming the promenade into a perceptual device capable of amplifying the signals carried by water and wind.

The exhibition unfolds along the town’s most traversed path, a route animated by the flow of tourists whose presence sets the rhythm of Cannobio and shapes its vitality.

In this moment of transition—between the heat of summer and the onset of winter—"A riva" invites us to cultivate an attitude of waiting, to rethink our relation to alterity. The shore becomes a place of reception, open to stimuli from both the lake and its passersby, in an attempt to glimpse what stirs below the surface, invisible to our eyes.