Carlo Benvenuto, Senza titolo, 2024, c-print, cm 160 x 225
event
Tuesday 8 October 2024 - Sunday 20 October 2024

MAXXI Med | videogalleryNo Time for Prophecies

videogallery
curated by Chiara Ianeselli with Davide Daninos
free admittance
Tuesday to Sunday
from 12 pm and from 3 pm
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A collection of works that explore time, responding to the need of artists to escape the present and find, through slowing down, the critical distance necessary to create.

No Time for Prophecies intends to show how artists, both within and outside the Mediterranean context, explore new forms of temporality. Every moment has become an event, and every event is shared instantly, bots following and chasing other bots in an endless dance of algorithms. Yet, as soon as our gaze catches a work of art, reality is recharged with time, and we begin to perceive its duration.

The project focuses on works that take the form of contemporary rituals, filmed and performed, set in the time of research and immersed in the waters of the sea. These places become moments for contemplation, spaces for divination, between creative isolation and observation of waves, islands and tides: instruments of meditation and imagination. When our gaze begins to skim over these ‘time-filled’ images, the viewer begins to perceive their duration and imagine other spaces and temporalities.

With works by Heba Y. Amin, Carlo Benvenuto, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Rä di Martino, Cleo Fariselli, Marcos Lutyens, Virginia Mastrogiannaki and Elias Mamaliogas, Elena Mazzi, Michail Michailov, Ivan Moudov, Luigi Presicce, Yang Song, Luca Trevisani.

A project that expands the research began with ‘A Yellow Sun, A Green Sun, A Yellow Sun, A Red Sun, A Blue Sun. Echoes through the Mediterraneans’, the inaugural programme of MAXXI Med anticipating the opening of the new museum centre in Messina. The videogallery is powered by Fondazione In Between Art Film.

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