The Gentili Palmisano Collective was born in 2020 from the meeting of Sonia Gentili's poetic research with Ambrogio Palmisano's visual research.
Our meeting came about thanks to Antonio Maria Polite (Bari, 1968- Turin, 2015; first prize Paratissima 2010), whose artistic look at text as moving image is in the genetic code of our project.
Also at the root of our identity is the name Collective The Man Who Doesn't Look, which we used in the first two-year period of our activity (2020-2022).
The Man Who Does Not Look is our work - manifesto, which by exploring the happening of the gaze expresses our philosophy.
The human gaze travels through reality without being able to dominate it: it exists in the becoming of focus, fading, continuous search and loss of its object.
This is the gaze of poetry.

Sonia Gentili is a poet, novelist and academic (Sapienza University of Rome).
Her poetry, discovered and supported by Giorgio Patrizi, Antonella Anedda, Elio Pecora and Giancarlo Pontiggia, has been included in works by Italian (Daniela Monaci) and European (Edith Urban, Anna Talens) artists and has won several national awards.
The 2007 debut collection L'impero e la gorgone (finalist for the Brancati Prize) was followed by Parva naturalia (2012), Viaggio mentre morivo (2015, winner of the Viareggio Prize, Pisa Prize and finalist for the Fiumicino and Frascati Prizes) and I quattro gesti della creazione (2020; special mention Premio Gozzano). Her new collection is due out in September 2024 from Aragno editore, with the title A day of war.
She has also published the novel I filosofi (Castelvecchi 2019), set in late antiquity, and the children's book Favole per credere alle favole (Ali Ribelli 2022), illustrated by Lino Fiorito.

Ambrogio Palmisano lives and works in Bari, Italy. Director and Visual Artist, (video art, photography, painting, installation and video/musical performance), won the Airone Award for editing at the 6th Montecatini International Tourism Film Festival (with Itinerary in the Clouds by Tommaso Lapegna). He participated in the 2000 Turin Film Festival with the editing of How Can You Think It's Over? The Cinema of Enzo G. Castellari by Fabio Segatori. He was a finalist in the 2004 Corto Barese competition and won the Best Director Puglia Spot Awards 2007. He currently collaborates with the production company Kinovan Srl.

Solo exhibition “Ora e Allora – Quando il cibachrome diventa arte”, mixed media (photography and dripping on acetate), 3-30 April 2024, Campus University, Bari, Italy

Collective exhibition "Salviamo il mare e l’ecosistema", mixed media Photography and painting, 17 -23 April 2023, Exhibition Space Salon Cruise Terminal / Port of Bari, Italy

Collective exhibition “Mare e…”, painting, 21 September- 10 October 2023, Michele De Napoli Art Gallery, Terlizzi (Bari, Italy)