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The stones sleep outdoors

Exhibitions

Stones Sleep Outdoors is an exhibition by Roman artist and photographer Carlotta Valente, on view at the Museo della Specola from September 19, 2026, to January 3, 2027.

Valente photographs stones, minerals, and other specimens from the Museum’s collection using historical photographic techniques, including silver gelatin prints and Becquerel daguerreotypes. Rather than simply documenting the specimens, her photographs explore their relationship with time: rocks preserve traces of transformations that have occurred over thousands or millions of years, much like photographs preserve moments in time.

The exhibition brings together different forms of temporality—human, photographic, geological, and astronomical—inviting us to reflect on time as a plurality of scales and experiences.

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Museo della Specola Firenze

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The stones sleep outdoors

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The exhibition unfolds across the Sala delle Commedie and the adjacent Sala Tomba of the Museum.

The main body of the exhibition is presented in the Sala delle Commedie and consists of previously unseen silver gelatin prints and Becquerel daguerreotypes, created by the artist through her study of models, minerals, and rocks from the Museum’s collections. In the Sala Tomba, the series Something Has Changed When I Wasn’t Looking (2026) is presented. The works bring together two different representations of time: the linear time evoked by the Museum’s gnomonic aperture at solar noon, and a cyclical dimension suggested by the rotational movement of the meteorite depicted in the images.

When
19/09/2026 - 03/01/2027
Tuesday — Sunday
9:00 - 17:00
Prices
€ 10.00
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