Works from The Parliament of Marmots
GAMeC, Spazio Zero
October 6, 2024 – January 19, 2025
GAMeC’s Spazio Zero hosts a selection of works exhibited as part of the ninth edition of the Gherdëina Biennial—The Parliament of Marmots.
Curated by Lorenzo Giusti
Artists : Talar Aghbashian, Alex Ayed, Ismaïl Bahri, Yesmine Ben Khelil, Nadim Choufi, Elmas Deniz, Esraa Elfeky, Andro Eradze, Marianne Fahmy, Daniele Genadry, Shuruq Harb, Katia Kameli, Laurent Le Deunff, Janis Rafa.
Coming to a close last August 31, the Biennial explored the themes of the wild as a creative dimension, multispeciesism as a trajectory of becoming, and mountains as a meeting ground through the participation of artists from various geographical areas of continental Europe and the Mediterranean, particularly from North Africa and the Middle East.
Through a selection of paintings, sculptures, video works, photographs, and drawings, the GAMeC exhibition path revisits the themes of the exhibition in Val Gardena, focusing in particular on the scope for cultural and political bridging between the Alps and the Mediterranean, deconceptualizing the idea of nature in favor of a narrative, existential dimension of the wild in the age of the “capitalocene.”
Produced over the past few years, the works presented in GAMeC’s Spazio Zero lead us into an extended geological and metamorphic time, in which geographic boundaries are lost and where seas, deserts and mountains rediscover their common origin, while ancient narratives, projected into the reality of our time, define new trajectories of meaning, interweaving reflection on origins with considerations on possible new forms of existence and cohabitation.