Letizia Battaglia. L’opera 1970-2020

Curated by Walter Guadagnini, the exhibition traces the life and work of the Sicilian photographer through over 200 images, conveying the complexity and richness of an artistic research deeply connected to the social and civic reality of her time. At the centre of the itinerary are the famous photographs devoted to the years of the Mafia, but the exhibition offers a broader view of the variety of themes that have run through Battaglia's entire production. Palermo and Sicily become places of the soul, observed in their many contradictions: the toil and hardships of everyday life alongside the dignity of people, love and joy, the vitality and beauty of young faces, the identity value of religious festivals. Alongside this account are the intense images made inside a psychiatric hospital. To expand the account of her extraordinary