The group photography exhibition *Sounds Good!*, curated by Loredana De Pace | Studio CAOS, is presented as part of the Circuit Off at the Rencontres d’Arles 2026 and will run from July 13 to 19, 2026, at the Galerie Betty Arles (France).
This exhibition brings together the perspectives of nine Italian artists: Michela Bernasconi, Cesare Di Liborio, Ivan De Francesco, Raffaele Sperandeo, Carlo Traini, Massimiliano Ferrari, Flavio Tecchio, Juan Borja, and Raffaele Salvati—artists who explore imaginary, desert-like, or inverted worlds, places of memory and identity, nature’s ephemeral and ever-changing signs, journeys and concrete experiences in unfamiliar cities and familiar industries, and distant cultures seeking to “engage in dialogue” with us, particularly through photography.
“Sounds Good!” is a group photography exhibition born from the desire to tell the story of the change—both visual and sensory—that we are currently experiencing. In this exhibition, the concept of change takes on a positive connotation and manifests in various forms, ranging from changes in landscape, urban environments, and industry to those of a cultural, sociological, and ancestral nature.
This ultimately leads to the metamorphosis of language, unique to contemporary photography. It, too, is changing; it is an unstoppable paradigm shift. Photography is transforming the way it expresses itself in step with the “fluid” metamorphosis of the human beings who create it. It transforms in its styles and themes, evolves, experiments, and then… returns to its origins, but speaking a modern language.
The photographs in this exhibition therefore aim to convey visions suspended between concrete experience and imagination: upended worlds, ephemeral traces left by nature, unknown cities, and distant cultures seeking to draw closer through the universal language of the image. Here, photography does not document, but interprets. Each artist navigates the boundary between observation and perception, transforming the journey into a narrative device capable of exploring identity, belonging, and collective memory.
Sounds Good! is thus a reinterpretation of reality from the perspective of the artists who bring it to life, in keeping with the theme “Worlds to Reinterpret” of this edition of the Les Rencontres d’Arles festival.
