Turin, OGR presents the exhibition program for 2023

The OGR Turin, after the exhibition RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON, the first solo show in an Italian institution dedicated to U.S. artist Arthur Jafa, presents for 2023 an exhibition program with an international scope. Opening set for March 29 with the exhibition Perfect Behaviors. The Redesigned Life of the Algorithm, a group exhibition curated by Giorgio Olivero: it is an investigation into changing individual and collective behavior in a society where we are constantly classified, measured, simulated and reprogrammed.

In September 2023, the art programming continues with the group exhibition Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars, curated by Samuele Piazza. Beginning with feminist ecology and queer affect theory, the exhibition expands possible notions of the concept of the body, accepting vulnerability and desire as central to the relationship with the other. Finally, in November 2023, in conjunction with Artissima and Torino Art Week, the OGR presents two solo exhibitions dedicated to Sarah Sze and Sara Enrico, both artists engaged in a reflection on the limits of sculpture, with a personal vocabulary capable of creating forms, often unstable, that invite the public to reconsider the way we perceive reality.

“In 2023, OGR Turin continues with strength and ambition the work begun in previous years: exploring the new frontiers of artistic expression and amplifying the collective capacity to analyze and read the present in order to gain a deeper perspective on the future,” says Massimo Lapucci, CEO of OGR Turin. “This process is consolidated with the exploration of new megatrends such as ArTechnology - coined right at OGR - to express the strategic point of view between culture, art and technology. With Perfect Behaviors, the activity of the OGR exhibition area adds a valuable and energetic humanistic note to the work carried out by OGR Tech, where constant research activity and numerous acceleration programs support innovation with the aim of stimulating growth and directing its positive impact on people.”

“Artistic experimentation,” says Fulvio Gianaria, President of OGR Torino, "is a form of cultural and social revolution. It expresses the human need to explore, to seek the relationship with the other in order to then activate further research: this is why it is significant that it dwells on topical issues such as artificial intelligences, where the uncertainty of what will be the future developments can make us question and attract us at the same time. Accepting this vulnerability is central to our being human, and exhibitions like Perfect Behaviors-which confront us with questions, not solutions or interpretations-play an important social role in activating thinking in line with not just artistic and cultural principles, but human ones."

Perfect Behaviors offers a space for inquiry into changing individual and collective behaviors in a society where we are constantly being classified, measured, simulated and reprogrammed. Through June 25, 2023, in Platforms 1 and 2 of the former workshops, the exhibition presents works by Universal Everything (UK), Paolo Cirio (Italy), Eva and Franco Mattes (Italy), Brent Watanabe (US), Geumhyung Jeong (South Korea), and James Bridle (UK) geared toward achieving a common goal: to restore alternative narratives to the dominant technological determinism to the viewer, helping to make visible what is invisible, even if it is close. In a context where the quantification of everyday life is at the hands of increasingly sophisticated data collection systems, the exhibition challenges the idea of artificial intelligence as a powerful autonomous creature inside opaque black boxes, emphasizing instead how, behind the tools for measuring interactions, there is always someone’s intervention.

In September 2023, the group exhibition Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars, curated by Samuele Piazza, continues some research initiated by OGR in 2018 with the project dancing is what we make of falling. The works of EglÄ— BudvytytÄ— (Lithuania), Guglielmo Castelli (Italy) and Raúl de Nieves (Mexico), through media and languages ranging from painting to video installation, investigate new forms of subjectivity in constant evolution. Starting with feminist ecology and queer affect theory, the exhibition expands possible notions of the concept of the body, accepting vulnerability and desire as central factors in the relationship with the other. The exhibition takes its title from one of the works on display, Song For a Compost by EglÄ— BudvytytÄ—: a hypnotic video exploration that addresses some of the project’s central themes such as reflecting on interdependence, abandonment, death and the idea of decay, through nonhuman forms of consciousness nested within a symbiotic system.

OGR Turin welcomes in Binario 1 the first solo exhibition in an Italian institution, by Sarah Sze (Boston, 1954), curated by Samuele Piazza. Since the late 1990s, the American artist has developed a distinctive visual language that challenges the static nature of sculpture. Coinciding with the explosion of information that characterizes our present, Sze’s work seems to simultaneously navigate and reshape the incessant flow of information in contemporary life. Through complex constellations of objects and a proliferation of images, the artist reworks the mass of visual narratives we store daily, from magazines, television, smartphones, cyberspace and material reality. His practice evokes the generative process of image-making in a world where consumption and production are increasingly interdependent and where, in a continuum, sculpture gives rise to images and images to sculpture. A central part of the exhibition in Italy will be a new work co-commissioned and co-produced by OGR Turin, Artangel, London, and ARoS, Aarhus Art Museum, with support from Victoria Miro Gallery.

The solo exhibition of Sara Enrico (Biella, 1979), curated by Samuele Piazza, presented in OGR’s Binario 2 is produced with the support of Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT-supporter of a fellowship for Piedmontese artists for a residency period at theAmerican Academy in Rome. The artist’s works, created through sophisticated manipulation of materials, from fabric to concrete to foam rubber, are set up in an ideal procession along the exhibition route. The relationship with the surface of the objects, the tensions of the structures and the interconnections between heterogeneous elements invite visitors to reconsider the canonical perceptual categories by immersing them in a sensory, visual but almost tactile experience.

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Turin, OGR presents the exhibition program for 2023

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