The Garden of the (In)visibles. Opening of the travelling exhibition – 2nd stop
Now hosted in the library of the Gorizia campus
27 November 2025 | Univeristy of Triese, Gorizia Campus, Italy
About
Following its first stop at Saarland University in Germany, the travelling exhibition The Garden of the (In)visibles now arrives in Gorizia, where it will be hosted in the library of the University of Trieste’s Gorizia campus.
Promoted within the Transform4Europe University Alliance, the exhibition has been organised by the Department of Humanities of the University of Trieste (UniTS) in collaboration with the University of Primorska (UP).
The exhibition showcases a selection of objects abandoned by migrants along the borders between Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy. Collected by students and academic staff from the two universities, these artefacts are recontextualised as markers of memory, identity, and shared heritage, encouraging visitors to reflect on both the visible and invisible dimensions of the European migratory experience.
The opening event will take place on Thursday, 27 November at 5.00 p.m., featuring contributions from:
- Prof. Roberta Altin, anthropologist and Rector’s Delegate for Development Cooperation, University of Trieste;
- Prof. Katja Hrobat Virloget, anthropologist, University of Primorska;
- Prof. Jure Gombač, anthropologist, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana;
- Dr Giuseppe Grimaldi, anthropologist, University of Trieste.
The opening will be attended by students from UniTS, UP, and Collegio Fonda. In particular, the Fonda for Others working group that will interview visitors and gather impressions and reflections on the exhibition.
The Gorizia stop marks a meaningful moment for the project: the exhibition returns to the very border where its journey began, placing the migrants’ objects within a space that increasingly stands as a symbolic European frontier.
