Mountains feel the impact of global warming particularly sharply, as there is no escape possible for living beings that cannot adapt. The drastic reduction in snow precipitation translates into a decrease in local water availability and changes in ecosystems, but also in a decrease in the flow of rivers that guarantee the survival of cities downstream. The impact on snow-based tourism is also evident: here is the opportunity to reinforce other tourism that can serve to bring visitors closer to the territories and their dynamics. What can art do? How to deal with ecosystem imbalances? How can we resist the social, political and economic violence generated by climate phenomena and their consequences? How can we invent new forms of action and rebuild bonds of solidarity in a world yet to come? PES investigates mountainous territories through art, an approach that combines a sensitive look with scientific research and contributes to the understanding of the troubled times we live in. PES is concerned with overexploitation and extractivism and becomes a laboratory for experiments. But in the Mediterranean region, where the territory has evolved along with human beings for thousands of years, the mountains need to be inhabited if we want to preserve the ecumene. How to respect the mountains and live in symbiosis with them and with other living beings that inhabit them?

This collective exhibition of works in progress from the Entre Serras Project, part of the Landscape, art and sustainable tourism seminar, shows research and artistic creation works carried out within the scope of actions that have been developed since 2017. The artists, with the support of local agents , propose an experience of reading the landscape that incorporates the changes taking place. Together, with different audiences, they explore, experiment and produce new forms and situations. They contribute to the construction of new narratives that, we hope, lead to new clues to re-cosmize the world. Art tells new stories and new relationships, so that the mountains continue to be a refuge and a source of inspiration.