The fantastic library is a project by Cherimus, an association active for several years in Sulcis and dedicated to the use of contemporary art as a tool for enhancing the territory, in collaboration with the School of the trip And Oxfam Italy, and involved the Municipalities of Giba, Masainas, Perdaxius, Piscinas, Santadi and Villaperuccio and the Province of Carbonia Iglesias. Curated by Emiliana Sabiu, the exhibition wanted to tell the adventurous journey of a large group of middle school children and fifteen artists, musicians, photographers and directors, coming from different parts of the world. It was the journey of Fantastic Library , which at the MAN in Nuoro, was transformed from a project to enhance the Sulcis libraries into an opportunity to meet and share relational and artistic processes.

The fantastic library it was meeting 76 kids from six villages in Sulcis, inviting 12 artists and musicians to let themselves be carried away by the kids. Abandon preconceived ideas, transform them, make them grow. Accepting the crisis and doubt as part of the game, as the first step from which to then rebuild something that is no longer just one’s own. The shock of sharing and transforming an idea that starts from a twelve-year-old boy, passes through the head of an artist, flows out and bounces again. Comparing different cultures, creating encounters, explosions, waves.

Roma, Arab, Wolof and Caribbean worlds, concentrated in 6 libraries in six small Sulcis towns. Six libraries in a corner of Sardinia like six screening rooms in Manhattan or Berlin. Senegalese percussion, impossible disguises made of paper and bags that take you to Mars, stories full of suspense and love, suspended between real and imaginary worlds, drawings, collages and puppets: everything constitutes material for telling stories, for narrating about oneself. An exhibition that recounted a year-long journey.