The article reports on the exhibition "Sicilia. Un’isola, tante Sicilie. Fotografia, memoria e patrimonio culturale nell’opera di Armando Rotoletti" at the Antiquarium Comunale di Centuripe in Sicily, running until September 27, 2026. The show features over thirty years of black-and-white photographic research by Armando Rotoletti (born 1958 in Messina), a photojournalist who left Sicily for London and Milan but maintained a deep connection to his homeland. His work captures the island's plural, complex identity through rituals, daily gestures, and cultural resistance to standardization, with images that blur past and present.
The exhibition matters because it positions photography as a tool for safeguarding both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, especially in small, off-the-beaten-path towns like Centuripe. By hosting such a project in a peripheral location, the show reinforces the role of local communities as active cultural producers and challenges the dominance of mass tourism. The project also includes texts by art historian Tomaso Montanari, adding scholarly weight to Rotoletti's personal vision of Sicily.