Dimore
Each era presents new junctions that capture attention, polarise opinion, and call for intellectual effort in influence over them, for better or for worse. These junctions arrive when, after a long incubation, great themes of humanity reach the point of maturation, or as sudden urgencies felt in the effects of technological revolution. In their unpredicted arrival such intersections produce a scenario where clashes and entanglements become the mode to explore until either a route is found for humanity to progress, or equally where it will be overwhelmed and undone.
Amongst those which qualify in these terms for our current historical phase at the global level, it may be migration, the pandemic, and climate change as the three key issues that assume maximum importance. Each of these themes is a world in its own right, with infinite facets, implications and consequences 鈥� each of strong influence over human and planetary relations, and each determinative of rules, modalities, and qualities of living in the world. Gathered into intersection within the DIMORE exhibition, the works of Mariana Ferratto, Rowena Harris and Luana Perilli offer three partial perspectives as keys to reading this way of living, shown through the diversity of their respective researches, choice of media, and thematics conveyed.
The three artists explore the shape of living through different angles, and where these trajectories converge through their shared approached in circumnavigating the intimate and domestic, in pursuit of the relationship between self and the inhabited environment. Housing can be considered more broadly as the inhabitation of environment 鈥� the making of space for the human needs we have to deal 鈥� and where the environment is present to this space even if, and indeed when, there will no longer be humanity. Home is the affective, spiritual dimension, of the people closest to us and with whom we share physical and mental space, be they our dearest affections or strangers that we welcome as the gesture of friendship to be built. It is a welcome that starts from the inadequacy of the very concept of migrant, which implies a free will that does not really exist. To be home within one鈥檚 own skin, is to speak of the human body as seemingly closed and perfect mechanism that we imagine provide us with a sense of total reliability and protection, when it may instead be a porous home by definition, due to the innate openings of the skin and intrinsic relationality of the human immune system with the environment.
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Each era presents new junctions that capture attention, polarise opinion, and call for intellectual effort in influence over them, for better or for worse. These junctions arrive when, after a long incubation, great themes of humanity reach the point of maturation, or as sudden urgencies felt in the effects of technological revolution. In their unpredicted arrival such intersections produce a scenario where clashes and entanglements become the mode to explore until either a route is found for humanity to progress, or equally where it will be overwhelmed and undone.
Amongst those which qualify in these terms for our current historical phase at the global level, it may be migration, the pandemic, and climate change as the three key issues that assume maximum importance. Each of these themes is a world in its own right, with infinite facets, implications and consequences 鈥� each of strong influence over human and planetary relations, and each determinative of rules, modalities, and qualities of living in the world. Gathered into intersection within the DIMORE exhibition, the works of Mariana Ferratto, Rowena Harris and Luana Perilli offer three partial perspectives as keys to reading this way of living, shown through the diversity of their respective researches, choice of media, and thematics conveyed.
The three artists explore the shape of living through different angles, and where these trajectories converge through their shared approached in circumnavigating the intimate and domestic, in pursuit of the relationship between self and the inhabited environment. Housing can be considered more broadly as the inhabitation of environment 鈥� the making of space for the human needs we have to deal 鈥� and where the environment is present to this space even if, and indeed when, there will no longer be humanity. Home is the affective, spiritual dimension, of the people closest to us and with whom we share physical and mental space, be they our dearest affections or strangers that we welcome as the gesture of friendship to be built. It is a welcome that starts from the inadequacy of the very concept of migrant, which implies a free will that does not really exist. To be home within one鈥檚 own skin, is to speak of the human body as seemingly closed and perfect mechanism that we imagine provide us with a sense of total reliability and protection, when it may instead be a porous home by definition, due to the innate openings of the skin and intrinsic relationality of the human immune system with the environment.
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