What lies beyond the wall?

Beyond the Wall

Signs of the Ordinary #1 · City of Parabita

Three designers, six craftspeople, three permanent works in the streets of Parabita.

Discover the worksFind them on the map

The exhibition

From gesture to object

On the first floor of Palazzo Ferrari, the exhibition shows how the three works came to life: raw materials, offcuts and semi-finished pieces trace the journey from the craftsperson's hand to the finished object. The full interviews with the three designers are also on display.

When
9 – 25 October 2026
Opening
9 October, 6.30 pm, with a public walk to the three works
Where
Palazzo Ferrari, Via Vittorio Emanuele III, 5

Opening hours on Instagram @beyondthewall_official

Take me there

The project in brief

What lies beyond the wall?

A town takes shape through its streets, and even more through what happens in them: habits, encounters, crafts, the routes people take every day. Beyond the Wall takes design out of the home and into the shared spaces where private life meets the lives of others.

Three designers worked side by side with local craftspeople to make three pieces of street furniture for simple gestures: sitting, lingering, meeting, lighting up, celebrating. Since October 2026 they have been part of the town.

  • 3designers
  • 6local craftspeople
  • 3permanent works

Made from local materials

Lecce stone · Giuseppe Calò, Collepasso
Lecce stoneGiuseppe Calò, Collepasso
Metal · The blacksmiths of Parabita
MetalThe blacksmiths of Parabita
Wood · Carlo Nicoletti, Parabita
WoodCarlo Nicoletti, Parabita
Light · Parisi 1876, Taurisano
LightParisi 1876, Taurisano

The works

Three ordinary gestures, three permanent works

Via Vernicchia, the alley in the old town where La Salentina stands1W

Via Vernicchia

La Salentina

A contemporary luminaria · Studio GISTO

Lighting up · celebrating

It brings together the tradition of Apulian festival lights, the luminarie, and the modular trusses used for stage sets. It is an essential, almost tribal object with no decoration. Its open, modular structure can hold lights, sound, garlands and signs: it turns the alley into a place for celebration and encounter, switched on each time by the people who live there.

La Salentina belongs to everyone and is for everyone: not an icon to contemplate but a symbol to live with, not exceptional but everyday.

Studio GISTO
Take me there Who made it The other works
Stone surface with an embroidered doily and an earthenware bowl set into it2W

Arco di Santa Maddalena

Parabola

The table of dialogue · Andrea Mancuso

Sitting · sharing a table

It grew out of the Night of Neighbourliness, when the people of Parabita lay a single long table through the streets to share dinner. Three tables and nine seats are cast in Lecce stone powder, with centrepieces and traces of embroidered tablecloths emerging from the surface. You cannot use it like an ordinary table: whoever sits down ends up looking at the person opposite.

The empty seats invite you to sit down. Whoever does is led to engage with the person opposite, and dialogue becomes the very function of the work.

Andrea Mancuso
Take me there Who made it The other works
Aldo Moro Park in Parabita, home of Bivio3W

Aldo Moro Park

Bivio

Seats and tables for being together · Giacomo Moor

Lingering · meeting

A single angled aluminium profile shapes a family of tables and seats, completed by a bench in aluminium and wood. Everything rests on one element: the joint that connects the parts. Pared back to the essentials, the pieces don't try to steal the show; they are there for the people who use the park.

The point where the parts meet is the key to the strength of these pieces, and a tribute to the public spaces where people, by meeting, become a community.

Giacomo Moor
Take me there Who made it The other works

Designers and craftspeople

Who designed it, who made it

Each work carries the mark of those who designed it, those who built it and the place that made it possible. Here, the person who imagines an object, the person who makes it and the person who will use it share the same everyday horizon.

Alice Fialà of Studio GISTO working with Antonio GiaffredaWooden luminaria frames in the Parisi 1876 workshop

La Salentina

Studio

Studio GISTO

A studio and workshop based in Milan and Treviso, founded in 2010, working across architecture, design and craft with circular, participatory processes that pay attention to local resources and to the social side of design. Collaborations include the Venice Biennale, Festivaletteratura in Mantua, LAC Lugano and Triennale Milano. Design team: Alessandro Mason and Alice Fialà.

Craftspeople

  • Antonio Giaffredablacksmith · AST Metalli, Parabita
  • Antonio Marrablacksmith · Parabita
  • Torquato Parisifestival lights · Parisi 1876, Taurisano

What lies beyond a wall? «A party you try to get into.» Alessandro Mason

Andrea Mancuso and Giuseppe Calò working on a stone surfaceGiuseppe Calò's workshop in Collepasso

Parabola

Designer

Andrea Mancuso

Born in Rome in 1982, he trained in London, where he co-founded Analogia Project, before opening his own studio in Milan. His work combines research into materials, close collaboration with craftspeople and master makers, and a strong storytelling streak. Clients include Bulgari, Driade, Fendi, Hermès and Ferragamo; he has been represented by Nilufar Gallery since 2015.

Craftsperson

  • Giuseppe Calòstone and marble · Produttore d'Arte, Collepasso

What lies beyond a wall? «Intimacy.» Andrea Mancuso

Giacomo Moor and Fedele Marra in the blacksmith's workshopColour test for the bench in Carlo Nicoletti's workshop

Bivio

Designer

Giacomo Moor

Born in 1981, he founded his studio in Milan in 2009 with a team of architects, designers and carpenters who follow every step from design to production. He combines rigorous drawing with a feel for the hand-made, and an empirical approach that anticipates the problems of working each material. Clients include Cappellini, Living Divani, Memphis Milano and Triennale Milano. With Dario Passi and Martino Bizzanelli.

Craftspeople

  • Fedele Marrablacksmith · Parabita
  • Carlo Nicoletticabinet maker · Laboratorio arti lignee, Parabita

What lies beyond a wall? «An opportunity.» Giacomo Moor

The project

Why beauty, why here

Since 2023 Parabita has been a laboratory for urban regeneration. Through Parabita per il Contemporaneo the town is building a collection of public art spread across its streets: first Votiva, then Ipogea, and now Beyond the Wall, which turns to design to make visible the relationships that hold a community together.

This is the town of the Night of Neighbourliness, the late-August evening when residents carry dinner out into the street and share it with their neighbours. The works invent nothing: they give shape to something Parabita already has, the ability to see public space as a place of closeness, care and belonging.

The three works are here to stay. They are not installations to be taken down at the end of the season, but furniture for everyday use, built by craftspeople who work a few kilometres away. For the people of Parabita they mean an alley that lights up for a party, a stone table to stop and talk at, a park with new places to sit. For visitors they are a reason to step into the old town and walk among the works of Votiva and Ipogea. The #1 in the title says this is only the beginning.

Map

Where to find the works

The three works of Beyond the Wall are marked in yellow. The black numbers show the works of Votiva and Ipogea, to discover along the same route.

Map of central Parabita showing the works of Beyond the Wall, Votiva and Ipogea La SalentinaParabolaBivio
  1. 1W
    La SalentinaVia Vernicchia · Studio GISTO
    Take me there
  2. 2W
    ParabolaArco di Santa Maddalena · Andrea Mancuso
    Take me there
  3. 3W
    BivioAldo Moro Park · Giacomo Moor
    Take me there

Suggested route: 1W → 2W → 3W. Aldo Moro Park is the furthest point from the old town.

The works of Votiva and Ipogea (20)

Numbers match the map.

  1. 01Felice Levini Il piede del santo, 2024
    Corte Ricci 4
  2. 02Helena Hladilová Kaya, 2022
    Via S. Antonio 2
  3. 03Namsal Siedlecki Viandante, 2023
    Via Dottor Gaetano Cataldi 39
  4. 04Liliana Moro Polaris, 2024
    Via Vittorio Veneto 1
  5. 05Adrian Paci Compito #20, 2024
    Via Vittorio Veneto 24
  6. 06Ektor Garcia Figura de nudo, 2018
    Via Impero 55
  7. 07Gianni Dessì Dell'arte… l'oro, 2024
    Via Andrea Giannelli 18
  8. 08Francesco Arena DIOCUBO, 2024
    Via San Nicola 9
  9. 09Mimmo Paladino Senza titolo, 2024
    Via Vernicchia 11
  10. 10Michelangelo Pistoletto L'edicola del Canto della pace preventiva, 2024
    Via Lopez y Rojo 1
  11. 10BFrancesco Arena La Grotta, 2025
    Piazza della Vittoria
  12. 11Ludovica Carbotta S/T (segnale non visivo), 2024
    Via Montella
  13. 11BRossella Biscotti L'uomo che cammina all'indietro, 2026
    Via Bartolo Ravenna
  14. 12Chiara Camoni Annunciazione, 2024
    Vico Principessa Giovanna
  15. 13Giovanni Lamorgese L'Addolorata, 2015
    Via Bartolomeo Ravenna 46
  16. 14Claudia Losi Amuleti Animalia, 2024
    Via Mazzini 37
  17. 15Luigi Presicce Miracolo senza titolo, 2024
    Vico San Salvatore
  18. 16K.R.M. Mooney Deposition c. (vii), 2023
    Via San Pasquale 23
  19. 16BRä di Martino Della morte, dell'amore e di altri racconti, 2026
    Via Giovanni Vinci 6
  20. 17Claire Fontaine Wishing painting (Votiva), 2024
    Via Coltura 34

The questions

Questions for the town, three voices to answer them

The questions on the posters around Parabita come from interviews with the three designers. Pick one and read their answers.

What lies beyond the wall?

  • Intimacy.

    Andrea Mancuso

  • An opportunity.

    Giacomo Moor

  • A party you try to get into.

    Studio GISTO · Alessandro Mason