Born as the direct result of Occhio Riflesso, Montecristo Project was created by artists Enrico Piras and Alessandro Sau with the participation of other artists involved in exhibitions organized, designed and curated by the Sardinian duo.

Occhio Riflesso was born from the need to linger on the manner of fruition of exhibitions, particularly on the identification of a common language related to the physical presentation and the photographic documentation of artworks. Montecristo Project instead brings into play this analysis through the construction of events, in which the protagonists are artists chosen according to the interest, or in some cases the lack of interest, from the audience and the critics.

The project takes its name from the namesake Dumas novel, in virtue of its particular location. Montecristo Project exhibitions are on a deserted island along the Sardinian coasts. The secret location, a Spanish watchtower of the seventeenth century renovated during the Second World War for defensive purposes, allows the artists to spread the exhibitions through materials created expressly for this documentary purpose.