Casa encontrada
Galleria Francesca Minini, Milan
21 March 2023 - 06 May 2023
With Casa encontrada, Sol Calero invites us to an appointment with the remains and fragments of stories and places that have ceased to exist. And not with the intention of freezing them in place and exhibiting them in museum displays, but of showing that human civilizations have always been an open laboratory of social experimentation, rather than a linear march towards modernity and the institutions of the present day. By subverting the typically Western prejudices of Otherness, the artist’s work makes use of the counter-hegemonic potential of art in order to turn the gallery into a lively and dynamic space aimed at the communitarian experimentation of social structures, which in this way can be explored and transformed. It is an aesthetic of turbulence, whose corresponding ethic is not given in advance (Édouard Glissant, Poetica della Relazione). It is an infinite process, and thus often incomplete; it is an invitation to refuse the bureaucratization of the mind, a stimulus to go ahead and to turn back, renouncing the idea of a single direction a priori; it’s a zig- zag in which the multiplicity and reversibility of anthropological options emerges gradually from the traces of the past, without ever coming to an end.
Text by Francesco Scalas.
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Photos by Andrea Rossetti.
