what we do
We cover, curate and promote artistic practice, organizing exhibitions with vernissages, curate artistic events and publications in a hybrid way, both physically at the venue of their host organizations and digitally via live broadcasts, but also storytelling through the publication of poetic essays and reviews.
Evaluation plan:
We plan exhibition openings with vernissage, simultaneously broadcast online on social media in consultation with the hosting venue.
Collaborators will be engaged in future initiatives through an open call for proposals or a spontaneous selection process that will extend beyond the local scale of the city of Florence, Italy, encouraging to expand into other spaces and build connections at an international level.
Past project
Art exhibition“Fabulation”,
featuring works by Simone Cariota, Maria Gomez, and Miguel Justicia
Alternative narratives and metamorphic creatures were just some of the themes explored in the exhibition "Fabulation," which opened Friday, October 13th 2023 at the Ex Macelli in Prato, Italy and featured works by Simone Cariota, Maria Gomez, and Miguel Justicia (aka Potro Negro). The group exhibition aimed to immerse visitors in an uncertain and fluctuating space, exploring the potential of a possible alternative narrative through the construction of a space that engages the body in listening to sounds and observing unsystematic images.
Exhibition text:
The material birth of the story arises from living somewhere else. Our imagination needs veiled elements to re-signify the boundaries of the representable. In this sense, the creation of an acousmatic place that cannot be delineated through the gaze generates a new sensation to inhabit, making it possible to stay in an indeterminate space. The word “acousma” was born in Greek antiquity to describe the sounds we hear but are not exactly able to say where they come from. The acousmatic space can therefore be defined as a sound atmosphere that dictates the possibilities of new perceptive and physical knowledge. The intent of the exhibition is to immerse the visitor in this uncertain and fluctuating place, exploring the potential of a possible alternative narrative through the construction of a space that involves bodies in listening to sounds and observing images not systematized. The work of Maria Gomez and Miguel Justicia is constituted under the premise of learning to perceive from the radicality of the decomposition of meaning. Artists make a compromise with what the sensitive hides: seeing, hearing, touching and intuiting things in another way.They outline exercises that compose a broken perception by provoking a counter-sense, so that in non-existence the exceptional can happen.
Clairvoyance/foresight and epiphanies are caused by the emergence of new forms of the sensitive, of new buried relationships that our gaze discovers when it excavates landscapes.The volatile deformation of the forms developed by Simone Cariota seems to enter into dialogue with the flows of light and sound in space, which become integral elements of the process of modeling his forms. Cariota's chimerical figures, born from the combination of elements of human and animal nature, are created through thermo-forming on the basis of fragments of classical statues found in various places.
Distorted details of concave grooves and plastic protrusions are therefore part of a nomadic metamorphosis that resists a state of permanence. The meeting between these practices generates a new fabled space perceived as a mapped archive in which travellers, through a story emotionally intuited within, find connections between the visual and sound potential of the material found in the space. A place that leaves our vision in suspension to create a reality only imagined, open to the possibility of inhabiting a newly born land.
Produzione:
INVISITA workshop was organized by Cut | Temporary Urban Circuit and Contemporary Art Forms with the contribution of the Tuscany Region, Fondazione CR Firenze, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and with the collaboration of the Municipality of Prato, Officina Giovani, TranSpace, Materiale Project Room, ABAFi Student Council and Fondazione Il Bisonte .
