Guglielmo Maggini and Adelisa Selimbašić | When In Rome

 

 

The exhibition by Verdiana Bove, Guglielmo Maggini, Pietro Moretti, Caterina Sammartino and Adelisa Selimbašić follows their common reflection Beyond the periphery of the skin presents unpublished and site-specific works that investigate the theme of marginality, understood as "border that separates" exactly like the skin that delimits the body from the outside and that, at the same time, constitutes the first contact with the surrounding environment, the first possibility of knowledge. Even today, at a time when the body has undergone a radical transformation, placed at the center of various social and cultural tensions, the skin is what defines, and therefore primarily defines, the body.

 

Each artist involved in the project has his own original interpretation of the idea of "skin" and the drive to go "beyond the periphery of the skin". Beyond, therefore, the given boundaries. Not necessarily to overcome them in a kind of titanic tension, but perhaps to explore them in their marginality, in their being the periphery of a large decentralized body such as the same deep articulation, the inexhaustible alphabet of artistic practices.

 

"Beyond the periphery of the skin" indicates the need to place oneself in one’s own time, in the continence of one’s own being in the world, by initiating a confrontation with several voices. Applying this concept to Rome, often referred to as a Great Mother alternately holy and damned, the city is seen as a great organism, not without borders, the place of choice for observing, investigating, with unprecedented possibilities of work and unpublished interpretative paths.