06.03.18

Ania Soliman

Ania Soliman (Group show): "Metamorphoses – Let Everything Happen to You", Castello di Rivoli, Turin. 06.03.18 >24.06.18

(ENG) Curated by Chus Martínez for Castello di Rivoli, the exhibition Metamorphoses – Let Everything Happen to You in the Manica Lunga explores the concept of transformation and flourishing through the works of emerging international artists.

Conceived specifically for Castello di Rivoli, the works of Nicanor Aráoz (Buenos Aires, 1980), Ingela Ihrman (Strängnäs, 1985), Eduardo Navarro (Buenos Aires, 1979), Reto Pulfer (Bern, 1981), Mathilde Rosier (Paris, 1973), Lin May Saaed (Würzburg, 1973) andAnia Soliman (Warsaw, 1970) consider art a transformative experience, encompassing the entire range of feeling and perception.

These seven new works feature alongside I Have Left You The Mountain, a work by Simon Battisti, Leah Whitman-Salkin and Åbäke shown in the Albanian Pavilion of the 2016 Venice Biennial of Architecture, and the video Army of Love by Alexa Karolinski andIngo Niermann, commissioned for the 9th Berlin Biennial in 2016. Made up of installations, sculptures, performances, paintings and videos, the works on display engage with the idea of metamorphosis as a process shared by the natural world and the creative one. For the artists in this exhibition, metamorphosis can mean not merely change but transition, departure from the self, movement that coincides with nature, whose presence, interwoven with sound, conjures up another dimension.

For the art of today it is important to distinguish the old “modern” idea of change current in the 19th and 20th centuries (as in Kafka’s Metamorphoses) from the contemporary concept of transformation based on the idea of metabolism/metamorphosis through ingestion of things. Many artists today are working with a notion of digestion or processing one element in order to energise another. Their works examine the way in which we are vital and create our subjectivities as Dionysian forms in motion, transcending inertia.

 

 

 

 


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Untitled (The Senses – Italian Bamboo), 2018


Untitled (Natural Production – Alice and Bob), 2018