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The exhibition Gut explores the poetics of underground existence – engaging with some of the most powerful symbols of human origins and human destiny ever forged by the imagination. It is dedicated to the dialogue between the visual and other arts with literature and its theory. The exhibition is accompanied by a parallel program that develops and reflects upon the main thematic axes of the exhibition, extending them into new fields. At its core, four “archetypal” literary themes with a shared atmosphere are placed in juxtaposition: the cave, the underbelly, the underground, and the tunnel. These are sites and forms of depth and isolation, scenes where chthonic forces rupture inner enclosures and shape a unified poetics of descent, dwelling, and emergence – but also of the reversibility between above and below. The aim is to illuminate the similarities and differences among these four motifs and, above all, to investigate the narrative and semantic variations that emerge wh…
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The exhibition Gut explores the poetics of underground existence – engaging with some of the most powerful symbols of human origins and human destiny ever forged by the imagination. It is dedicated to the dialogue between the visual and other arts with literature and its theory. The exhibition is accompanied by a parallel program that develops and reflects upon the main thematic axes of the exhibition, extending them into new fields. At its core, four “archetypal” literary themes with a shared atmosphere are placed in juxtaposition: the cave, the underbelly, the underground, and the tunnel. These are sites and forms of depth and isolation, scenes where chthonic forces rupture inner enclosures and shape a unified poetics of descent, dwelling, and emergence – but also of the reversibility between above and below. The aim is to illuminate the similarities and differences among these four motifs and, above all, to investigate the narrative and semantic variations that emerge wh…
