Two Caribbean artists, Nadia Huggins and Tessa Mars, transform the historic church of San Lorenzo into a sensory immersion of video, painting and sound. Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel for the tenth anniversary of The Current (TBA21Academy), the exhibition abandons the terrestrial perspective to embrace the ocean as a space of freedom, metamorphosis and resistance.
A total immersion in the work of Douglas Gordon, master of contemporary video art. Gallery 5 of the MAXXI is transformed into an uninterrupted audiovisual stream where 82 videos play simultaneously, from the famous 24 Hour Psycho to more intimate and experimental installations.
Between hypnotic repetitions and breaks in rhythm, the exhibition transforms time into an uninterrupted flow of images and sounds where the viewer is immersed in gazes and expectations.
An icon of visual art with text, Barbara Kruger transforms art into a digital megaphone. From black and white to immersive projections, the exhibition explores the power of the message and its manipulation in the age of social media, challenging viewers to recognise their role in the ocean of information that surrounds us.
Born in 1999, she is an educator and museum mediator. She graduated in Art History from the University of Florence with a thesis on the concept of reproducibility in crypto art. She currently works in various cultural institutions in Tuscany, including the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, the Pistoia Museums Foundation and the Textile Museum.