Marcelo Expósito – Herbarium of the Italian Difference

Marcelo Expósito – Herbarium of the Italian Difference

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Realized in relation to the space and history of Parco Arte Vivente in Turin, Marcelo Expósito’s Herbarium of the Italian Difference is a herbarium that, instead of botanical indicators, contains handwritten diagrammatic annotations, derived from historical and political documents. Created using plants from the PAV park, the work is inspired by the herbaria that Rosa Luxemburg made while she was incarcerated, at the same time when she wrote her political essays, militant agitprop texts, and personal correspondences. In these we can clearly catch Rosa Luxemburg’s interest in the relationship between social revolution, subjective states of mind, and the environment as a space of human coexistence with other forms of life. The title of the first herbarium by Expósito refers to Toni Negri’s text La differenza italiana. The plant tables were made in collaboration with the AEF/PAV Educational and Training Activities of PAV, in continuity with the permanent installation PAV_Herbarium by Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna.

Bio 

Marcelo Expósito (ES) is an artist and cultural critic. His works investigate the development of the post-Fordist city during the long cycle of neoliberal globalization, highlighting the relationships between the current systemic crisis and the emergence of new political subjectivities. This investigation focuses on the unsustainable nature of the models that configure the existence of the metropolises and the authoritarian evolution of neoliberalism in a time of global crisis. Expósito’s investigation makes use of a dialogue with the feminist and anti-racism movements, with sexual dissidencies, and the climate justice movements, illustrating their prompt capacity for critical thought and action, in line with the lessons learnt from Gramsci for whom ‘There is no human activity from which every form of intellectual participation can be excluded: homo faber cannot be separated from homo sapiens.’ 

Premiere: Parco Arte Vivente, 2023 (IT)

Part of Re-Imagine Europe – New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union. 

The presentation was realized with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, the Fondazione CRT, the Regione Piemonte, and the City of Turin.

This work is available for touring. 


For further enquiries contact: info@parcoartevivente.it 

Year

2023

Location

Turin (IT)

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