The designed layout consists of three devices that mark the three thematic areas of the exhibition: memory as moon, memory as organised matter and memory as play.
In a historical moment of trauma and erasure, of violence and humiliation, of absence and forgetting, the imaginative act of memory and its re-creation becomes an act of possible resistance. Ar/Ge Kunst presents a group exhibition about everything that can be imagined, orchestrated and acted out, when we strive to recall what we no longer remember. What is lost is manifold: some people have lost their family, some their land, some their roots, some their affections, some a love, while some no longer have anything material left. In the epidemic of memories (facilitated by digital media), only their rewriting survives, which once exhumed, have the chance to come back to life. But their exhumation is necessarily performative and involves an act which itself subverts the rules of remembering. The exhibition brings together people who, in the creation of the artistic act, bring out certain echoes from the past, present and future, making them part of a unique time, and exercising the political and salvific power of the reconstruction process.
The devices, within the gallery, are 'triggers': objects that separate, delineating specific thematic niches, but at the same time relate. The displays create intimate zones but, thanks to a series of openings, soft geometries and the use of colour, maintain permeability between spaces and a link to the overall theme of the exhibition, memory.
The colour palette chosen for the exhibition brings us back to the theme of the exhibition, memory. This cognitive function is the process of encoding, storing, consolidating and retrieving information and experiences derived from the environment and thinking. We have chosen cool, calming, delicate colours: three tones in continuity, starting with green, moving on to green-blue and arriving at light blue, which favour concentration, seeking to prepare an environment that can thus facilitate the creation of memories and learning.
These colours generate perceptions of freshness, security and calm and have a direct reference to natural environments (the blue of the sky, the green-blue of water and the green of the meadow) facilitating health and well-being.
Detail of the 3D printed joints.
Overview of one display module.
Moira Ricci
Muna Mussi
Noor Abed (PS), Noor Abuarafeh (PS), Anna Boghiguian (EG), Cristian Chironi (IT), Muna Mussie (ER/IT), Masatoshi Noguchi (JP), Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa (UK/IT), Bea Orlandi (IT), Adrian Paci (AL/IT), Moira Ricci (IT), Jessica Russo (IT), Becky Shaw (UK), Cesare Viel (IT).
Francesca Verga and Zasha Colah
Studio GISTO
Alessandro Mason, Alice Cazzolato, Pietro Lora
Tiberio Sorvillo, Alessandro Mason