ABITO IL MONDO CHE VORREI
(I INHABIT THE WORLD I WOULD LIKE)
Emanuela Capuano, Collective 22, Federico and Matteo Masciocchi, Mirko Ostuni, Red Rubber Road, Nicolò Rinaldi, IED collective project
The Sala Ottagonale exhibition is closely connected to that of the Parco Mirabello and stems from a question: what world do we want to inhabit? We have chosen to group together projects which, from different perspectives, urge us to ask critical questions about the present and to imagine our futures.
The exhibition design reflects this curated question: the room becomes a bridge between identity and memory, nature, technology and AI, participation and belonging. The projects take on site-specific forms and create an immersive experience in which images, sound, installations and technology render uncertain the border between reality and artifice, memory and reconstruction, questioning us on what we choose to preserve, transform or imagine for the future.
One of the nuclei in the room is our relationship with nature. In Archive 22, Collective 22 transforms the archive of species at risk of extinction into a shared and participated space: a great open book and a digital portal invite us to consult it and amplify it.
With Nemeton, Federico and Matteo Masciocchi combine video, sound and diorama in a perceptive device which puts into question our anthropocentric vision of nature, bringing us closer to an awareness of small autochthonous species.
In W.E.I.R.D., Nicolò Rinaldi reflects on the paradox of a society which artificially reconstructs nature while being unable to protect it. Images, video and sculpture create an immersive environment in which the border between observation and reconstruction becomes uncertain.
Almost Something Else by Red Rubber Road investigates the role of Artificial Intelligence in the creation of images and perceptions of reality. Three strips suspended at varying heights create a fragmented, simultaneous vision, moving our view between different levels.
In Sottovoce, Emanuela Capuano examines difficulties in communication through video, word and listening, in an intimate experience where proximity does not necessarily coincide with comprehension.
Mirko Ostuni, with Four to the dirt, creates a dialogue between raves and the traditional Salento pizzica: music, ritual and moving bodies become instruments of belonging and resistance to individualism.
The IED collective project broadens this investigation with research into memory, the transformation of places, reality and representation inherited from the past and from social systems.
The Sala Ottagonale becomes a space which weaves together questions more than answers: how can we rethink our relationship with nature? How will our way of seeing things and communicating change in the age of AI? What forms of relationship and belonging can we build together? An invitation to question the present and imagine how we can transform the world we inhabit to make room for that of tomorrow.
