Ludovica Carbotta's Monowe at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Ludovica Carbotta presents 'Monowe', a solo exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. The project explores an ideal city through sculptural and sound installations, performative actions, utopian literature, science fiction, and sociological analysis. Each element—from the access door to the factory, museum, guard tower, and courthouse—contributes to the total vision of Monowe, a name combining 'mono' and 'we' to reflect the paradox of solitary individuality reaching toward useless plurality. Carbotta's work echoes Tommaso Campanella's 'The City of the Sun' (c. 1602), reinterpreting its allegorical governance of Power, Wisdom, and Love as Isolation, Memory, and Opportunity. The exhibition runs at the foundation in Turin.
Key facts
- Ludovica Carbotta's solo exhibition 'Monowe' is at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.
- The exhibition uses sculpture, sound, performance, utopian literature, and sociological documents.
- Monowe is a portmanteau of 'mono' and 'we', suggesting solitary individuality reaching toward plurality.
- Carbotta's work references Tommaso Campanella's 'The City of the Sun' (c. 1602).
- Campanella's allegorical rulers of Power, Wisdom, and Love are reimagined as Isolation, Memory, and Opportunity.
- The exhibition examines architecture and its techniques to define an ideal city.
- Carbotta was born in Turin in 1982.
- The exhibition was in 2019.
Entities
Artists
- Ludovica Carbotta
- Tommaso Campanella
Institutions
- Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
- Artribune
Locations
- Turin
- Italy