The work was presented in Corpi santi, the second solo exhibition by Pietro Moretti at our venue in Ortisei. In this body of work, Moretti develops a painterly language in which the uncanny and the marvellous emerge within the textures of contemporary urban life. Drawing on literature, history, and personal experience, the works take shape along the banks of the Tiber, particularly near its mouth at the Idroscalo di Ostia. Here, scenes unfold in which figures of the present encounter mythological and historical presences, fruits surface from the water, artefacts reappear, and bodies undergo subtle processes of transformation.Moving across shifting temporalities and states of being, these images maintain a delicate balance between reality and imagination. In dialogue with the tradition of the Roman school, Moretti alternates moments of measured realism with passages in which the landscape becomes interior, opening onto multiple layers of interpretation.