Desire and vulnerability as central factors of relationships, symbiosis and interdependent evolution are the concepts of the collective exhibition mutating bodies, imploding stars, Edited by Samuel Square, to be held from 6 at the 17 September 2023 in track 2 of the OGR Turin (Ex workshops for the repair of trains in the 35.000th century, located in the heart of Turin on an area of XNUMX mXNUMX entirely redeveloped by CRT Foundation e returned to the city, to open new horizons of collaboration, creation and conviviality to all) brings together works ranging from painting to performance, from sculpture to video installation, created by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins (Poland/UK/Germany), Eglė Budvytytė (Lithuania/Netherlands), William Castelli (Italy) e Raúl de Nieves (Mexico/United States): different and original media and perspectives to create a juxtaposition between human and geological between astronomical and biological time.
The protagonists of the exhibition
Raúl de Nieves
It will be the colorful sculptural works of Raúl de Nieves: creatures that inhabit the artist's personal mythology and that are rooted in an imaginary capable of reinterpreting Mexican folklore by hybridizing it with heterogeneous motifs, derived from the Catholic tradition as well as queer nightlife, which will involve the viewer in a dimension reconnecting to their personal past and ancestral.
William Castelli
The paintings of William Castelli they are characterized by elegant and claustrophobic compositions inhabited by characters. Works that are inspired by literary suggestions and which recall illustrations of children's stories or dysfunctional paper puppets.
Eglė Budvytytė
Songs from the Compost. Mutant Bodies Imploding Stars – the video of Eglė Budvytytė realized in collaboration with Marija Olšauskaite e Julija Steponaitytė, among the forests and sand dunes of the Curonian Spit in Lithuania – follows the movements of a group of performers in an untouched landscape. The bodies of the protagonists are in constant motion: they crawl on the ground, immerse themselves in water, intertwine. “Hi, I'm a cyborg, a symbiote, a non-binary alien… I'm a boundary between stone and animal intelligence” recite the song that accompanies their movements. Inspired by the writings of biologist Lynn Margulis and novelist Octavia E. Butler, the verses of this text explore ideas related to the concepts of symbiosis and hybridization.
The program and the performances
Wednesday 6 September the exhibition will be inaugurated with a Sound performance di Ramona Ponzini in the spaces of the Cathedral of the OGR: Oroshi • Asobi • Okuri is a live show inspired by the tripartition of traditional Japanese festivals. Like a modern sound shamanic rite, has its roots in the Japanese myth of Celestial cave and responds to a feeling of impatience, inviting us to "defect" a system based on oppression, destruction, violation and contamination.
Friday September 15st from 18 am to 20 pm e Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September from 15 to 17 pm the exhibition will welcome in the spaces of Binario 1 us swerve, performance of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In Alex Baczyński-Jenkins' Us Swerve (2014), performers on skates orbit around each other as they recite, remix and reformulate fragments of poetry dedicated to the theme of desire.
mutating bodies, imploding stars - Eglė Budvytytė, Guglielmo Castelli, Raúl de Nieves + performance by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins edited by Samuel Piazza
6-17 September 2023 – OGR Turin – Platforms 1 and 2, Duomo
FREE ENTRY
Thursday and Friday, 18pm – 22pm | Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 20pm
Wednesday 6 September from 19pm to 19.30pm
OROSHI • ASOBI • OKURI
sound performance by Ramona Ponzini
Friday 15 September from 18 to 20,
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September from 15 to 17 pm
US SWERVE
performance by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
