Artists:  Carla Forte, Werther Germondari, Federica Gonnelli, John Graham, Yea-eun Jang.

Imaginary forests, which are created and live only in our minds, and that still refer to other places, perhaps imaginary too, are the protagonists of this collective exhibition, with works by five international artists, coming as usual from the OGA Collection.

Carla Forte (Caracas, Venezuela, 1981) lives and works in Miami. Film director, scriptwriter and performer Forte is the founder and Executive Director of Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film. Selected for the Berlinale Talent 2017, she has directed internationally featured Video-Art works such as Interrupta, Official Selection at 27th Marseille Festival Les Instants Vidéo 2014. Her cinematographic work includes the feature film ‘ANN’, Official Selection 16th calabrian Festival Euromediterraneo, Italy, 2016 and the documentary The Holders, which World Premiered at the Miami IFF 2015.

Werther Germondari (Rimini, Italy, 1963) Visual artist, performer and filmmaker. Interested in innovative experimental dynamics that are neo-conceptual and situational, characterized by a taste for the ironic and surreal, Werther Germondari has experimented for 35 years through many different expressive media (from painting to installations, photography to film, videos to live performance). Germondari's works have also been shown in solo exhibitions where he focuses on hidden elements highlighted in styles. In 2013 he created the Ospizio Giovani Artisti.

Federica Gonnelli (Firenze, Italy, 1981) attended the Liceo Artistico and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and participated in solo and group exhibitions. In 2006 he graduated with a thesis entitled "L'Arte & L'Abito". Since 2007 she is part of the collective "Arts Factory" for which, as an artist deals with the design and construction of video, installations and video installations. In 2011 he opened the "InCUBOAzione" studio in Prato. In 2013 he achieved the specialization in Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages, with the thesis "Videoinstallations between Body-Space-Time".

John Graham (Saskatoon, Canada, 1946) is a multidisciplinary artist. John started his professional creative life by studying architecture and working as an architect. He later shifted his artistic focus to study and create visual art in multiple media. His ever-diversifying art practice includes print media, artist’s books, drawing, painting, installations, and independent filmmaking. His artwork has been acquired by numerable public and private art collections, like the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canada Council Art Bank, the National Bank of Canada and the New York Public Library.

Yea-eun Jang (Seoul, South Korea, 1988) studied animation at the University of Hong-Ik, in South Korea, and her first animation 'Odd' is from 2010. She has participated in many film festivals, then she devoted himself to illustration, attending the Academy and participating in various exhibitions collective and also creating art books. She currently lives in Prague, where she attends the Film and TV Graphics Visual Art Program of UMPRUM (Academy of Art, Architecture and Design).