The MAN measures itself with a new installation dedicating an entire room of the museum to Nicola Filia’s “forest of white trees”, a site-specific project designed for the MAN by the young Sardinian ceramic artist. Clay, a living and vital material par excellence, the beginning and principle of all things, a metaphor for life and death, is transformed into an imaginary forest where the clearing, that part of the forest in which there are no plants, is the place where real illumination is achieved; this means that if it is true that the paths of the forest lead nowhere and, least of all, to being, it is also true that they can lead to clearings in which being illuminates itself, that is, in which light can be shed on its.

Nicola Filia (Carbonia 1975, lives and works in Olbia) in the last five years he has produced prestigious collections of ceramic objects for very famous companies such as B&B Italia, Boffi and Poliform.