On Saturday, February 21, 2026, at 6:00 PM, at the Pinacoteca Metropolitana "Corrado Giaquinto" in Bari, the exhibition of Pamela Diamante "The Invisible. Radical Existences" will be inaugurated, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara.

The project is supported by PAC2025 - Contemporary Art Plan, promoted by the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.

The exhibition is promoted and coordinated by the Metropolitan City of Bari. On the occasion of the inauguration, the following will be present: the Metropolitan Mayor Vito Leccese, the Councilor delegated to the protection and enhancement of the heritage of the Pinacoteca Micaela Paparella, the Head of the Cultural Heritage and ICO Service Raffaele Nicola Vitto, the artist Pamela Diamante, the curator Roberto Lacarbonara, Professor Claudia Attimonelli, socio-semiologist, University of Bari, and Grazia Moschetti, Inequalities and Global Migration Unit of ActionAid Italy.

The Invisible. Radical Existences is a research and artistic production project through which Pamela Diamante returns to investigate the forms of social and economic subordination and the possibilities of redemption that can emerge through collective agency. At the center of the research is a specific professional category in Southern Italy: female agricultural laborers, systematically marginalized by cultural stigmas related to sexuality, place of origin, and the presumed modesty of agricultural work. The artist's attention focuses on the conditions of women employed seasonally in the harvesting and processing of fruit, subject to serious violations of fundamental rights and structural gender inequalities, starting from wage disparity.

The project originates from the anthropological and linguistic condition that relates rurality, exploitation, and symbolic construction of social inferiority. The derogatory connotations historically associated with agricultural work in the southern context, such as "terrone" or "mangiatore di terra," are here assumed as power devices: labels that "naturalize" backwardness and fix archetypes of class and gender subordination.

Through an artistic practice aimed at restoring political and poetic dignity to the relationship between body, land, and work, Diamante reinterprets these narratives as expressions of conflict from which to move towards a possible reappropriation of meaning and value.