SHELTERS FROM THE STORM

La Rada – Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to invite you to the third event of the 2025 exhibition programme OUTSIDE OF US, with a group exhibition presenting works by Aldo Mozzini, Lucia Cristiani, Rachele Monti, Rebecca Solari, and Tristebacioclub.

SHELTERS FROM THE STORM is the title of the group exhibition curated by Yimei Zhang and Tommaso Gatti at La Rada in Locarno. This exhibition pays tribute to a space that, for many years, has served as a place of dialogue and exchange—a true ‘rada,’ a haven sheltered from winds and waves.

The title is inspired by a famous song by Bob Dylan (1975), in which the storm is a metaphor for an inhospitable and hostile world. The works on display stage a tension between protection and vulnerability, investigating life as a precarious gesture in an era of nomadism, porous borders, and architecture born in ruins. Houses that are not dwellings, but fragile refuges for those seeking asylum in a time of transience.

Each artist interprets the theme of refuge in their own way: from Aldo Mozzini’s precarious structures to Lucia Cristiani’s material installations, from Rebecca Solari’s performance to Tristebacioclub’s disturbing images, to Rachele Monti’s chromatic interventions. Together, the works outline a poetic horizon in which the act of living becomes both an aesthetic and political experience, a place of resistance and openness towards others.