Fondazione Elpis presents from Tuesday 4 April to Sunday 23 July 2023 in the new spaces of Milan, in via A. Lamarmora 26, the exhibition Chi ghe pü Nisün! (There is no one here anymore!) with works by Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Martina Melilli, Matteo Pizzolante and Agnese Spolverini. The exhibition project is carried out in collaboration with Ramdom, a cultural association active in the Apulian territory since 2011.

Through a series of installations specially created for the Foundation, Chi ghe pi Nisün! brings together the research and experimentation of four artists different from each other in terms of origin, training and practice: Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (1994, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), Martina Melilli (1987, Piove di Sacco), Matteo Pizzolante (1989, Tricase) and Agnese Spolverini ( 1994, Viterbo).

United by having participated in the course of 2022 in the A Sud di Marte residency program - promoted by Ramdom in collaboration with the Elpis Foundation at the spaces of KORA-Centro del Contemporaneo in Castrignano de' Greci (Lecce) - the artists bring to Milan a reinterpretation of this research and production experience, broadening and extending the reflection on the concept of 'South' and its geographical, historical and socio-anthropological implications, bringing into play the dichotomous relationship between city and province and the production and consumption models that these historically represent.

The title of the exhibition Chi ghe pi Nisün! it starts with an exclamation uttered in Milanese dialect by the owner of a historic shop in via Orti during a conversation about the changes and transformations of the neighbourhood. A sentence that could be heard in the heart of Milan as well as in a town in southern Italy - with different and in some ways opposite motivations - and which underlines a parallelism between the changes taking place in rural areas and those of the urban fabric, highlighting the global character that these changes assume nowadays.