Since 2024, a programme of Interferences has brought works by contemporary artists into the Cerruti Collection, discreetly integrating them within the rooms of the house-museum.
Four interventions have already been completed or are currently in development.

The third will open on 25 September with a new installation of Unsettling Genealogies (2024), a video work by Alessandra Ferrini. This event will also introduce the artist’s upcoming contribution to the third issue of Quaderni di Fisica e Metafisica, The Shape of Italy, scheduled for publication during Artissima 2025.

Unsettling Genealogies emerges from Alessandra Ferrini’s long-term critical investigation into the history of Italian cultural institutions. It interweaves a series of family stories with a scrutiny of colonial history, social class, European imperialism, and Fascist legacies. Particularly, the work considers the cultural politics of Italian Fascism and its lasting investment in the arts, to highlight the relationship between aesthetics, ideology, and propaganda.

Through personal and historical archives, Ferrini uncovers minor personal histories alongside forgotten or repressed historical narratives by staging a tension between the public and the domestic spheres. 

Alessandra Ferrini is an Italian-born, UK-based artist, researcher, and educator. Her work investigates the enduring legacies of Italian colonialism and Fascism, with a specific interest in the past and present network of relations between Italy, the Mediterranean region, and the African continent. Her practice spans across moving images, installation, and performance-lecture, as well as writing, publishing, and education. Her work has featured in group shows and international film programmes. Ferrini was awarded the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022 and participated to the 60^th Venice Art Biennale’s international exhibition (2024).