Se mi penso in grande, svanisco
Project curated by Camilla Marrese, Gabriele Chiapparini
Works by Martino Cortigiani, Alice Muratore, Sara Tonioni, Manfredi Almiro Calabrò, Andrea Parisi, Eleonora Silvestri, Alessandro Di Palma And Chiara Capodieci
Tutor: Camilla Marrese And Gabriele Chiapparini
Martino Cortigiani, Alice Muratore, Sara Tonioni, Manfredi Almiro Calabro, Andrea Parisi, Eleonora Silvestri, Alessandro Di Palma and Chiara Capodieci talk about freedom, the terror of losing it and the emptiness that can result from obtaining it. They talk about an absence of space and a problem of scale: they feel tiny, practically unheard. On the one hand because they fear not having a strong enough voice, and on the other because they don’t know whether anyone out there is listening.
Until yesterday, the eight people in the room didn’t know each another. Today their conversation outlines a strong and cohesive generational sentiment. The anxiety about the exploitation of nature shapes the urgency to learn to coexist with and understand other species. The intolerance towards individualism morphs into a continual search for connection, community and the collective. The absence of a safe refuge translates into the need to search for or build one.
If ideals are not just ideals but ways of acting in the world, the question that follows is: how do we all work together? How do we place our individual characteristics in the service of a shared idea? How do we see an image, plural?
Se mi penso in grande, svanisco is a collaborative process, a collective effort to re-evaluate authorship by breaking through the solitary wall that artistic practice often is – or, at the very least, by opening cracks in it and looking through. It’s the attempt to grasp an intermediate moment, in which you’re neither one thing nor the other, it’s the desire to represent a shape before it’s stabilised.
