On / In Forests
with Poly Marchantia and Lunetta11; curated and moderated by Zasha Colah
10 June 2023
17:30 - 18:30
Dialogue
The curator Zasha Colah, the collective Poly Marchantia and the art gallery Lunetta11 accompany the public in a listening session: through stories and field recordings, during the meeting stories of artistic work on and in the forest will be investigated, from India to Argentina passing through the Langhe region.
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Zasha Colah
Curator and writer, co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst (Bozen, 2023); member of Archive Ensemble (Milan/Berlin/Dakar, 2021-); lecturer, comparative history and curatorial theory at NABA (Milan, 2018-). Editorial Committee, Geoarchives (NABA & Meltemi, 2021-). Co-founder of the Clark House Initiative (Mumbai, 2011-2020). PhD on the forest region of Burma/India (Sapienza, 2020).
Lunetta11
Lunetta11 is an art gallery established in 2019 from the will of Francesco Pistoi and Claudia Zunino to bring contemporary art in an ancient village of the Langhe region. Since 2022, it has been taking care of the exhibition program of Casa Gramsci in Turin, in collaboration with NH Carlina and Istituto Gramsci.
Poly Marchantia
Guided by the behaviour of the liverwort plant called Marchantia Polymorpha - a plant that tends to grow after the earth has been disturbed - the collective reflects on the ways of deep coexistence with different ecosystems.