Carlo D’Oria’s Flusso Pellegrino, installed in the field known as “Dietro San Rocco,” just behind the chapel of the same name in Vicoforte, is a corten steel sculpture conceived as a tribute by the artist “to all humanity, which, precisely thanks to its nomadic spirit, has contributed to the blending of ethnicities, the exchange of ideas, and the encounter between different cultures.”

Drawing inspiration from explorers, migrants, pilgrims, and from all those forced to flee lands devastated by invasions or natural cataclysms, D’Oria depicts a flow of human figures released into the air like leaves in the wind, moving in different directions in search of new horizons. In this way, he narrates the story of human nomadism, driven by many different forces: necessity, the urge to explore, the desire to reach a destination, a loved one, or a different life.

The corten steel silhouettes, with their oxidized surfaces and irregular outlines, also evoke leaves stirred and carried by the wind — fragments of a humanity that moves, disperses, and reunites within the vital cycle of nature. Through this dialogue between matter, environment, and memory, D’Oria’s sculpture becomes a living presence: powerful yet light, projected toward a new space and time while remaining firmly rooted in the here and now, almost like a living shrub that chose to grow precisely there, to take deep root and then expand into a diaspora destined to bear fruit.