In Modena, the IOCOSE collective's first solo exhibition in a museum institution

From Nov. 25, 2022 to Feb. 26, 2023, FMAV - Fondazione Modena Arti Visive welcomes in the Palazzina dei Giardini the first solo exhibition in a museum institution of the art collective IOCOSE, curated by Francesca Lazzarini and Daniele De Luigi.

Founded in 2006 by Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, Davide Prati and Paolo Ruffino, the collective aims to place at the center of its work the search for traces left in the present by the failures of narratives about the future of technology. With an ironic and visionary attitude, since its beginnings the collective has made provocation, play, and Science Fiction the bases of its practice, "directed to critically explore the dominant narratives about technological progress and the future and to make their contradictions and failures blatant. Post-failure is in fact the term coined by the four artists to define their approach: according to them the most suitable to confront the system of neoliberal and financialized capitalism, which is propelled forward thanks to repeated visions of the future that are not only hardly realized but, on the contrary, generate unannounced disastrous consequences for the vast majority of people and the planet."

On the occasion of the exhibition entitled IOCOSE. Loops & Vectors, the collective presents a series of works created over the past decade that aim to produce new interpretations of imaginaries about technological innovation through a poetic and surreal reading of the myths of progress. As the curator explains, “they are variously informed by these two different types of movement: on the one hand, the loop, circularity, which can be understood in a wide variety of meanings, from repetition to an alternative model of time to the linear one; on the other hand, the vector, a line that indicates direction and movement, also subject to multiple interpretations: from the gap up to the vanishing line.”

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Image: IOCOSE, Studio for Critters of the Space, Unite!, detail (2022). Courtesy of the collective.

In Modena, the IOCOSE collective's first solo exhibition in a museum institution

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