The collective exhibition “On Love” brings collectively eight artists from totally different generations to discover the idea of affection. By way of quite a lot of mediums, Sabian Baumann, Zheng Bo, Leda Bourgogne, Giulia Crispiani, Soñ Gweha, Jeanne Jacob, Marta Margnetti, and Tomás Paula Marques replicate on love not solely as a sense however as a gesture that may nurture actions of political nature.

Curated by Gioia Dal Molin, the exhibition attracts from conversations, reflections, and readings from latest years, together with the writings of authors and thinkers equivalent to bell hooks, Ursula Okay. Le Guin or Donna Haraway. The purpose is to share concepts in regards to the complicated nature of affection, recognizing its myriad kinds that stretch past the standard view of heterosexual romantic relationships: Jeanne Jacob explores love from a queer-feminist perspective via oil work, whereas Giulia Crispiani displays on the political and anarchical energy of affection.

Soñ Gweha creates a multisensory set up exploring the facility of queer eroticism and its relationship with care and therapeutic. Zheng Bo challenges conventional concepts of coexistence between people and nature via video works exploring interspecies relationships. Sabian Baumann addresses themes of gendering and social norms via drawings and installations, encouraging essential reflection on the notions of subjectivity, sexuality, and love. Leda Bourgogne explores love via handbook labor, reflecting on the expertise of loss and the method of therapeutic. Marta Margnetti attracts inspiration from Ursula Okay. Le Guin to delve into untold life tales and relationships via ceramic works. Tomás Paula Marques weaves queer-feminist tales via quick movies exploring need and love in numerous historic contexts.

The exhibition challenges the idea of affection as a capitalist product, lowered to a means of manufacturing and copy, and as a substitute, it goals to discover new concepts and approaches to like. How can we narrate the love story in a different way? In what methods can love be a political act? What new worlds can we create? By way of these questions, “On Love” emphasises that love is just not solely a private expertise however has deep and related social and political implications.

Collaborating artists:
Sabian Baumann Zheng Bo, Leda Bourgogne Giulia Crispiani, Soñ Gweha, Jeanne Jacob, Marta Margnetti, Tomás Paula Marques.

Curated by
Gioia Dal Molin

at Istituto Svizzero, Rome
till June 30, 2024