The collaboration between Intesa Sanpaolo and Artissima continues with the third edition of their moving image project, The Underground Cinema, curated by Irene Calderoni (Artistic Director, Scuola Piccola Zattere, Venezia). The exhibition, running from Friday, 1 November, to Sunday, 3 November, 2024, will be held at Gallerie d’Italia – Torino. This exhibition of video works, many exhibited for the first time in Italy, will feature artists represented by galleries participating in Artissima. The featured artists are Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam), Alice Bucknell (IMPORT EXPORT, Warsaw), Stephanie Comilang (ChertLüdde, Berlin), Pauline Curnier Jardin (Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, ChertLüdde, Berlin), Valentina Furian (UNA, Piacenza), Lungiswa Gqunta (WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town), Beatrice Marchi (Federico Vavassori, Milano), Lili Reynaud Dewar (Layr, Vienna), and Silvia Rivas (Rolf Art, Buenos Aires).
Inspired by the exhibition space’s immersive, underground architecture, the title references Robert Smithson’s reflections on cinema as a physical and psychological experience of abandonment and torpor, where memory gets lost in a “forest elsewhere”. The kaleidoscopic sequence of video works trigger multiple reflections with this near-hypnotic, liminal state, but not as a form of detachment from reality. Instead, to access a deeper level of memory, desire, knowledge and action. In dialogue with the wider thematic framework of Artissima, the exhibition explores dream images suspended between waking and sleeping, light and darkness, reality and its projection on the screen of the unconscious.
As part of this collaboration, La Condizione Umana, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, was presented in 2023, and Collective Individual, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, in 2022.
WHERE AND WHEN
Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, Piazza San Carlo, 156
1 November: 9.30am — 10.30pm
2 November: 9.30am – 11.30pm
3 November: 9.30am – 7.30pm.