KIRINYAGA
SACRED ROOTS. LIVING IDENTITY
URIHI. POLO CULTURALE “CULTURES AND MISSION”
29th JANUARY – 29th NOVEMBER 2026
An original exhibition by Polo Culturale “Cultures And Mission” dei Missionari della Consolata
TEAM CAM
Piero Demaria, Cristiana Fabbri, Muriel Leiva Ortega, Fabio Malesa, Alessandra Pulina, Alex Njenga Watene
GENERAL DESIGN AND COORDINATION
Simona Borello and Paolo Pellegrini – Mediacor srl
SCIENTIFIC PROJECT
Elisabetta Gatto
with Gloria Codello
EXHIBITION DESIGN
Daniele Botturi and Eleonora Casetta
CONTENTS
texts: Giovanni Giorgio Demaria, Elisabetta Gatto, Gloria Codello
video: Diego Diaz Morales
MAPS, ARCHIVE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS
Archivio Fotografico e Audiovisivo dei Missionari della Consolata di Torino
Archivio Nazionale Cinema d’Impresa di Ivrea
PRINTING
Eurocolor
Special thanks to
Ornella Alessiardi, Luigi Anataloni, Jacopo Caldera, Maria Luisa Coppo, Adolfo De Col, Silvia Euron, Noemi Gamba, Francesca Gisso, Samuel Kabiru Kibara, George Wakhungu Kibeu, Armen Harutyunyan, Ilaria Magni, Cecilia Mainardi, Maria Luisa Malnati, Roberto Malvicino, Mirco Maritano, Joan Agnes Matimu, Maximiliano Moro, John Aaron Mutuma, Julie Wambui Muya, Luca Olivieri, Francesco Peyron, Ugo Pozzoli, Claudia Pugno, Vincenzo Salemi, Alessandro Scanavino, Elena Testa, Tommaso Valli, Pietro Villa, Tiziano Viscardi, Alice Wanja Wambugu
Kirinyaga is dedicated to the memory of Father Giuseppe Quattrocchio (1930-2025), an IMC missionary, who devoted his life to learning about and spreading awareness of African cultures, living and studying in close contact with many peoples, including the Kikuyu.
