The exhibition takes the form of a landscape in the making: a sensitive territory in which nature is neither a backdrop nor a mere object of representation, but an active presence — a force that changes, breathes, resists and regenerates. The invited artists - Cyril de Commarque, Laura Pugno, Gaia Scaramella and Lucia Veronesi - intertwine their research like radical underground systems, traversing matter, sign, gesture and symbol. Despite the diversity of their languages, their practices share a common tension: questioning the unstable boundary between the organic and the cultural, between what grows spontaneously and what is constructed, named and controlled. As the curator states: “Matter becomes narrative, myth settles upon surfaces, the mark germinates like a seed. The works emerge from processes of continuous metamorphosis, in which the living takes on symbolic form and language, in turn, becomes body, substance, trace. Within this framework, the human and the non-human do not stand in opposition but enter a relationship of mutual listening. Language does not describe nature from the outside: it follows its rhythms, embraces its instability, and reflects its transformations. Metamorphosis thus becomes a relational practice, a critical stance capable of recognizing uncertainty as a fertile condition. The exhibition presents itself as an ecosystem of mutations: a space in which forms, words and images continually disintegrate and reassemble, whilst nature ceaselessly rewrites its own grammar. From this perspective, language too reveals itself as living matter, capable of contributing to the construction of new alliances between human beings and the environment. The ‘mother tongue’ evoked by the title does not coincide with a closed identity or exclusive belonging: it is rather an original, pre-verbal language, formless and shared, one that precedes the codified word, belonging to the body, to breath, to relationship. A common language, rooted in our mother matter.”