MESSAGGERE

At the same time as Marion Baruch’s monographic exhibition, the ground-floor rooms of the Museo Novecento, historically reserved for the nourishment of the soul and body of the nuns who lived in the Leopoldine complex, welcome the work of a new generation of artists Chiara Baima Poma (1990, Cuorgnè, Turin), Fatima Bianchi (Como, 1981), Lucia Cantò (Pescara, 1995), and Parul B. Thacker (Mumbai, 1973). The artists, diverse in their backgrounds, training and modes of expression, are united by a research that draws on the deepest feelings of humankind and seems to express interest in themes related to spirituality.

Through recently produced works and site-specific interventions designed specifically for the Museo Novecento, the exhibition will allow an investigation into the relationship between art and spirituality, establishing an unprecedented dialogue between very distant practices.

In a time as complex, destructive and dramatic as the one we are living through, can art be a form of spirituality, can artistic practice be a personal and collective space in which to experience faith, rituality, transcendence beyond materiality, toward a new temporal and spatial horizon?