Sergio Lovati, La Città del Sole, 2020-21 The title of the work refers to the homonymous utopia by Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639). I started from an actual city and tried to read the symbolic forms on its surface, and to imagine the ways of understanding and feeling the world that have gone through it throughout its history, the erased and overwritten utopias and those still present, the desires and fears at the origin of the order that each time influenced the shape of its architecture and spaces. The result is not a recognisable city but the "Invisible City" that gives voice to my questions and concerns about our society at large. A feeling of anxiety and threat runs through it. It is the anxiety that comes from living in a continuous state of emergency and from experiencing a permanent uncertainty about the future. It is the threat of the possible consequences. When will the emergency be over? But first of all, what kind of emergency am I talking about? The current health one? The climatic one? The economic one? The all of them (and others) happening at the very same time? And, most importantly, what kind of measures will be brought in to deal with them? I wanted these questions to be rooted in a place, because the issues they entail arise from our own history. They are not ruled by some abstract and necessary cause and we do not passively suffer them from the outside. The shape of the world we live in at any given time is a possible result of our own utopias, of the ideas we collectively believe in and to which we act accordingly. There is always room for agency and choice.