Márgenes, recorridos y recovecos

The project Márgenes, recorridos y recovecos consists of the willingness to change the dead space around us; to build strategies that encourage us to occupy our own spaces; a reflection on the urban space as an alternative setting. In the words of Filippo Poli, “the main idea has been to consider the post-it space as an open stage, as opposed to the character of organized planning in the controlled spaces, that is, based instead on freedom of bodies and actions that move spontaneously through open spaces”.

The residual spaces of large infrastructures can be considered types of public spaces. It is in these various places where there is a great opportunity for the artist, working on empty spaces and encouraging an alternative exhibition. Giovanni La Varra defines the post-it city as “an operating device of the contemporary city concerning the dynamics of life outside the conventional channels”. For different reasons those activities do not fit into the wellbeing of society and are relegated to searching for other forms of survival, by occupation or appropriation of the land, by small temporary transformations of the public space; understanding public space, not in the strict sense of the word, but according to the pairing of property/privatization, appropriated/appropriation of Marx. Strategies and tactics can be investigated for the critical intervention in the public space articulating a unique city, ordinary, that exists and lives there. 

The economic changes, the processes of administrative decentralization and the dynamics of metropolitan dispersion finish transforming not only the systems of production and consumption patterns but also the type of territory. The cities are increasingly similar to each other, but the heterogeneity hinders the creation of a collective conscience and of identity with the space. In the suburbs and the territorial borders we find areas of relative anarchy where power actualizes itself without risks to be fined or detained. Those places on the verge of disappearing are very conducive areas for artistic intervention. The subject of the work would be set in the space itself, in the permutations that suffer, and in the possibility of the void to constitute a subject.

In Room 1 of la FCP a space will be reactivated by putting in place the making of a spatial work of art that seeks an open dialogue between different disciplines, diluting the boundaries of sculpture, painting and performance. The space that surrounds us, conditions and molds us as individuals, but also each one of us is part of the whole that forms the identity of the space that we inhabit. This exhibition shows how the nature of the peasantry shapes the landscape, and vice versa, that is, as the landscape shapes the peasantry.