Some time ago, wondering about
ways of saving one's memory in this subtle struggle against disappearance, and
at the same time involved in a private reflection on an artist's ability to
leave traces that can be experienced by other people, I came across the
cabinets of curiosities, also called wunderkammer. These wonder
rooms were private collections during the Renaissance, individual portrayals of
the vastness and sublime of the world in a room. A devotional place,
with no apparent rational categorization, but where the display was meant to
produce wonder, to incite one's own imaginative recollection of the world.
A room of wonder takes inspiration in these
wonder rooms and invites a group of artists to the adventure of
creating a collection of wonders and its translation and insertion in real time
in an exhibition room for common share, with no limit of the medias used. A
collection of their artistic trajectories, of their daily lives, of their
belonging to different histories of art, of the scene, of their imaginaries and
of their time. A collection of men and women, dancers, actors,
sculptors, video artists, performers, ordinary people, working collaboratively
across fields, helping each other, sharing tools and knowledge for the creation
of one room of wonders.
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