A cultural platform operatingthrough time-bound activationsfocusing on design and art.
It is a point of condensation where practices, ideas, materials, and people come into temporary proximity: intensifying, transforming, and continuing beyond the moment of encounter.
)Cofounded by Riccardo Robustini and Francesco Librizzi, THE LINE is a cultural platform operating through time-bound activations. Each project brings together a curatorial vision and a selected group of authors, generating new works and relationships that take shape as exhibitions and market.
THE LINE focuses on design and art, and the hybrid practices that move between them.
The research behind each project does not end with the event. It accumulates over time into a living, open archive. THE LINE operates through formats that evolve and shift across different places and moments.
Conceived by Francesco Librizzi and Riccardo Robustini, 7 + 1 Acts of Survival has taken place from 21 to 26 April 2026 during the Milan Design Week. It marked the inaugural public activation of THE LINE gallery and the first articulation of an ongoing curatorial framework. Developed as a long-term research trajectory, the project is structured through three interconnected phases – Memory, Survival, and the Archaeology of the Future – investigating how materials, objects, and ideas persist, transform, and reappear across time.
The exhibition focused on survival as a condition of the present. Everything that exists – objects, materials, ideas, and practices – remains because it has survived. From this premise, the project is structured around three guiding questions: what has survived, how did it survive, and why did it survive? These questions frame survival not as permanence, but as a dynamic process shaped by resistance, adaptation, and the continuous production of meaning.
Stone, formed over more than two billion years of geological time, becomes the central reference for this inquiry. Each work originates from an identical block of black African stone, establishing a shared condition from which distinct responses emerge. Through acts of subtraction, transformation, and tension, the works explore the relationship between material, form, and time, positioning themselves between sculpture, architecture, and design.
