Sensing Interdependence

Save the dates:
Friday 27 June, 6-9pm: Opening
Saturday 28 June, 10.30am-8pm: Public Programme

With art collective Arts For the Commons (A4C): Rosa Jijon and Francesco Martone
Curated by Aria Spinelli and Angelo Castucci

Sensing Interdependence is a retrospective exhibition on the work of the Italian art collective Arts For the Commons (A4C), a collaboration between Ecuadorian artist Rosa Jijon and activist and artistic researcher Francesco Martone. The exhibition tackles the notion of interdependence between nature and humans. It is guest-curated by Aria Spinelli and Angelo Castucci.

Through the perspective of A4C’s artistic methodology, the exhibition proposes to rethink interconnected empathic, tactile, and political relations in the context of the rights of nature and the rights of people(s). The works on show ask audiences to harness interdependency in order to navigate the complexities of climate justice, resistance against extractivism, the legal personhood of ecosystems, and new institutional art forms in the ecological crises of our times. By conceptually revisiting the collective’s research and production, the exhibition proposes a small archipelago of three installations hosting the artworks, curated around three core aspects of A4C’s artistic approach. These islands map geographies of mobility and communities’ resistance, going beyond anthropocentrism and the rights of nature.

Sensing Interdependence is a project developed by Joint Cultural Initiatives and supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (13th edition, 2024), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.