Simone Cerio, Iacopo Pasqui Perenni Ospiti September 24 – October 26 2026 Opening: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 6:00–9:00 PM Carlo Gallerati is pleased to present Perenni Ospiti, a double solo exhibition by Simone Cerio and Iacopo Pasqui, curated by Simone Marsibilio. The event, from Monday, October 19th to Sunday, October 25th, is part of the eleventh edition of RAW (Rome Art Week). The word "celebrate" has its roots in the Latin celeber: that which is frequented, inhabited, made significant by presence. Even before honoring or celebrating, celebrating means filling a space and transforming it through relationships. From this concept comes Perenni Ospiti, a photographic project by Iacopo Pasqui and Simone Cerio on the relationship between presence, space, and memory. After the first chapter at /f urbä/, an emerging space in Guardiagrele, Abruzzo, the project arrives at the Galleria Gallerati in Rome as a continuing exploration. The works have traveled, encounters have shaped experiences, and the photographers' gaze has evolved. In Rome, the photographic process enters the exhibition space: notes, journeys, expectations, and previous images reveal what leads to photography. Iacopo Pasqui's notebook collects streets, objects, details, and atmospheres encountered on the journey to Rome. These fragments do not anticipate the work, but preserve its evolution. In Paola's portrait, the photographer's research is further layered: the person portrayed encounters the objects of her home, and blue, a defining element of the artist's language, returns like a veil of poetic distance through which the figure emerges together with its surroundings. Simone Cerio's journey, on the other hand, brings to the project the time he spent in Rome as a reporter during Pope Francis's funeral. The collective experience of the present is deposited in his gaze and dialogues with previous memories. In his portrait of Paola, figure and landscape meet: photography becomes an empathetic comparison between what the photographer carries with him and what he finds before him. The works dedicated to Linda, Maria, Silvia, and Luca constitute necessary steps in this research: images that recount a before, but also the movement through which the portrait has transformed. In Rome, Paola's home becomes the place where these paths converge. Not a backdrop, therefore, but an organism made of objects, light, memories, and everyday gestures. In this case too, entering a home means for photographers entering, cautiously, into the memory of those who inhabit it. The portrait thus arises from the encounter between two memories: that of the one photographed and that of the photographer. Perenni Ospiti thus continues to interrogate inhabiting and our transitory existence in places. The images are open organisms: they contain what has been, but also the possibility of what is yet to come. Each encounter adds a layer, each place alters the direction of the project. Photographs remain temporary presences capable of lingering over time: here, we are perennial guests. (Simone Marsibilio) Simone Cerio (Pescara, 1983) is an Italian documentary photographer specializing in visual research and long-term projects. The thread that unites his work is the theme of spirituality and social, anthropological, and political inequalities, through the use of extremely intimate storytelling. The author's visual approach often focuses on stories that have a primarily documentary value on current events, but with a strong interpretative connotation, bordering on performance. He is best known for his research on LGBT religious communities, entitled RELIGO, and his work on the theme of sexual assistance for people with disabilities, entitled LOVE GIVERS. These projects have earned him international awards.