What might a European Pavilion look like? Ludovica Carbotta's project at the OGR Turin

From Tuesday Nov. 1 to Sunday Nov. 6, OGR Torino is hosting the exhibition I come from outside of myself by Ludovica Carbotta (Turin, 1982). This is an unprecedented project at OGR Turin on the occasion of The European Pavilion, the artistic program that will continue in Rome from November 17 to 19, created by the will of The European Cultural Foundation, together with Fondazione Camargo, Fondazione Kultura Nova and with the support of Fondazione CRT, curated by Samuele Piazza, aimed at questioning together with many European institutions the lack of a European pavilion in major international events. I come from outside of myself is thus artist Ludovica Carbotta’s proposal for an ideal pavilion: it does not envisage the construction of a stable building, but of a potential space that can be “contained,” a fragile, mobile architecture that passes from hand to hand, from country to country. Ludovica Carbotta transforms OGR into the production space of the pavilions, sculptures made from casts and replicated thanks to self-made machines that recycle plastic. In the artist’s will, these objects enjoy an extraterritoriality similar to that of the delta Biennale pavilions. Ludovica Carbotta’s idea stems from the observation of the mutability of European borders and their symbolic and narrative value: they are permeable and leave great freedom of movement to goods and people within, but they fortify themselves to violently exclude those outside, with the tragic consequences that follow.

On the occasion of the presentation of the project, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 3 p.m., Binario 2 becomes a meeting space with a panel discussion: the artist invites jurists Alessandra Donati, Elisabetta Lamarque and Stefano Montaldo, philosopher Lorenzo Marsili, economist Alessandra Venturini and art historian Vittoria Martini to dialogue to reflect on the nature of European borders and the concept of European citizenship, between limits and possibilities. On Nov. 17, at The European Pavilion in Rome, the artist will donate four pavilions to four speakers during a discussion open to the public. Sociologist Monica Sassatelli, authors of Against Borders - The Case for Abolition Gracie Nae Bradley and Luke de Noronha, and journalist Nilas Heinskou will participate.

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What might a European Pavilion look like? Ludovica Carbotta's project at the OGR Turin

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