Alessandra Buccheri lectures in History of Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. She completed her doctorate at Oxford in 2009 and became a fellow of Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America in the autumn semester of 2021. She is well published and her research is concerned with art, architecture and stage design in early modern times. She is the author of The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439-1650: Italian Art and Theatre (London: Ashgate, 2014). Giulia Ingarao lectures in History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. She completed her postgraduate studies in Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her principal areas of research are Surrealism, Gender Studies and postwar Italian art. She has published numerous essays, many of which concern the Surrealist diaspora in Mexico; she is the author of the monograph Leonora Carrington: The Image of Dreams (Milan: Mimesis 2022). Emilia Valenza lectures in History of Contemporary Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. She has been active as a curator and critic of contemporary art since 1990. She has published numerous essays and articles, which mainly concern photography, sculpture and women artists. She is Co-Curator of the project ‘Madonie-Paesaggi, 1973-2021’ (‘Madonia-Landscapes, 1973-2021’), which in 2021 won the Ministry of Culture (MIC) National Competition ‘Strategia Fotografia’