Sicilian artist Elisa Giardina Papa discusses her Venice Biennale work U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale and other installations exploring myth, memory, and resistance to categorisation in contemporary art.

Alfio A. Puglisi on how the Sicily Artist in Residence Program (SARP) is transforming Sicily into a global hub for contemporary art through site-specific residencies, local collaboration, and atmospheric place-making.

We travel to Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, rich with layers of history, myth, and volcanic soil. We'll be exploring how artists live, work, and create here — interviewing some of the most compelling voices in contemporary art working through residencies and site-specific projects.

Davide Degano began to question what it means to be Italian. Am I Sicilian, Colombian, Friulian, or Slovenian? My grandmother Olga was born in Slovenia. By the time she was 20, the same land had become Italy. One hundred and fifty years ago, Sicily was part of the Spanish Empire, and not long before that it was part of the Ottoman Empire.