From today, a powerful message of peace will welcome passengers departing from Rome Fiumicino Airport: the collective artwork “DARING PEACE TOGETHER, FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT HATE” has been unveiled on a glass surface spanning more than 100 square metres at the entrance to Terminal 1. The installation features 108 black-and-white photographic portraits, giving a face and a voice to people of different backgrounds, ethnicities and faiths, reaffirming the airport’s role as a place of encounter and dialogue.

Through this initiative, Unhate Foundation, together with Aeroporti di Roma, the Community of Sant’Egidio and Studio Kene, under the patronage of the Municipality of Fiumicino, has chosen to give shape to a shared message of peace, entrusting faces, stories and gazes with a collective call for broterhood and shared responsibility towards a future without hate.

The photographs were taken by the young people of Studio Kene, the permanent photography workshop created by Mohamed Keita, during the International Meeting for Peace organised by the Community of Sant’Egidio on 27 October at the Auditorium in Rome. Powerful and immediate, the images portray 108 people who chose to ‘put their faces to the cause’ for ‘Daring Peace, Together’ and accompany passengers on a visual journey that breaks the routine of travel and opens up a space for awareness.

The exhibition was launched on the initiative of Unhate Foundation, a Third Sector organisation founded by Alessandro Benetton and supported by Mundys, Edizione and Aeroporti di Roma. The Foundation is increasingly committed to promoting projects and activities aimed at countering all forms of violence and discrimination, especially among the younger generations, while also encouraging collective reflection on the value of peace and inclusion.

Conceived by the French contemporary artist JR, internationally renowned for his large-scale urban interventions exploring universal themes such as solidarity, reconciliation and celebration of diversity, this collective artwork forms part of the international “Inside Out Project” programme. Created in 2011, it is a global platform that enables communities around the world to express their identities and values through large-format black-and-white photographic portraits displayed in public settings, transforming transit areas into spaces for dialogue and exchange.

The exhibition “DARING PEACE TOGETHER, FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT HATE” marks a further step in Aeroporti di Roma’s broader commitment to enhancing Leonardo da Vinci Airport not only as a strategic global hub, but also as a venue for art and culture. Within this framework, the airport already hosts several major artworks and cultural projects, including “Apparato Circolatorio”, the immersive installation by artist Jago; “Vitruvian Man” by Maestro Mario Ceroli; “Stream of Light”, the monumental sculpture by Helidon Xhixha; and “Men and Gods”, the exhibition route created with the support of the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica. The airport has also previously hosted Bernini’s “Salvator Mundi” marble masterpiece.

“Our mission is to challenge the culture of hate, and art is one of the main ways in which we can foster dialogue and connection across generations,” said Irene Boni, Managing Director of Unhate Foundation. “It has been a great honour to contribute to the ‘Inside Out’ project, a unique opportunity to bring together civic engagement, art and international visibility. I would like to thank AdR, the Community of Sant’Egidio and the young people of Kene for making possible the creation of a work that, in many ways, serves as our manifesto.”

“Hosting this installation in the Departures area, where Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 come together, expresses a clear idea of an airport which, alongside its role as a hub for global mobility and connectivity, can also embrace the language of art and serve as a platform for messages of real civic meaning,” said Vincenzo Nunziata, Chairman of Aeroporti di Roma. “‘DARING PEACE TOGETHER, FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT HATE’ gives powerful expression to this vision, bringing to Rome Fiumicino a message of dialogue, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence, in line with Unhate Foundation’s commitment and with the importance that our parent company Mundys also attaches to these values.”

“We are honoured to have collaborated with Unhate Foundation and Aeroporti di Roma on the creation of such a prestigious art installation, which conveys a fundamental message in a time marked by wars and international tensions. Peace is possible where people of different faiths, cultures and backgrounds come together. It is with this conviction that, for 40 years, the Community of Sant’Egidio has been promoting the international meetings for peace, last year in Rome, and next October in Assisi,” said Stefano Carmenati, Administrator of the Community of Sant’Egidio.