La Triennale di Milano and the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi present The Restless Earth (La Terra Inquieta), an exhibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni and co-produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and Fondazione Triennale di Milano, as part of the Visual Arts Program of the Triennale directed by Edoardo Bonaspetti.
The Restless Earth borrows its title from a collection of poems by Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean writer who probed the question of how different cultures can coexist. The exhibition shares in Glissant’s project a pressing and necessary one that tries to describe this unstable and agitated present as a polyphony of voices and narratives. Through the works of more than sixty artists from thirty-nine countries – such as Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Turkey – which fill the ground-floor gallery of the Triennale and continue to the floor above, this exhibition charts both experiences and perceptions of migration and the current refugee crisis as an epoch-making transformation that is reframing contemporary history, geography, and culture.
So, through installations, videos, documentary images, historical sources, and material artifacts, The Restless Earth explores real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing the odyssey of migrants through personal and collective tales of exodus inspired by varying degrees of urgency and longing. The exhibition revolves around a series of geographic and thematic lines of inquiry – the war in Syria, the state of emergency in Lampedusa, life in refugee camps, the figure of the nomad or stateless person, and Italian migration in the early 20th century – which intersect with works that serve as visual metaphors for conditions of mobility and precariousness. But not only.
Juxtaposing art and reportage, The Restless Earth focuses also on how artists bear witness to historic events, and how art can address social and political change. Refusing the omniscient narratives of history and the media alike, many artists in the exhibition approach image-making from a personal perspective. The resulting works combine the traditional modes of journalism and documentary with narrative techniques akin to those used in literature, autobiography, and fiction
The Restless Earth
Triennale di Milano, via Alemagna, 6 - Milan (Italy)
27 April – 20 August 2017
opening times: from Tuesday to Sunday, 10,30 am - 8,30 pm | closed on Monday
admission fee: full price 8,00 € | reduced price 6,50 € for special categories | cumulative ticket 10,00 €
info: www.triennale.org | www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.com
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published on 2017-04-30 in NEWS / EXHIBITIONS
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