Michal Rovner's 'ALERT' Transforms Fondazione Merz with Anubis Installation
Michal Rovner's site-specific exhibition 'ALERT' at Fondazione Merz in Turin transforms the architectural space with a metamorphic intervention. The installation features a giant jackal projection that evokes ancient and primal fears, referencing both Plato's cave and Lascaux. Rovner's work addresses the crisis of displacement, noting that UNHCR reports over 100 million refugees. She states she starts from reality but removes identifying details to reveal something beneath. The jackal, named 'Anubis,' serves as guardian between life and death, simultaneously observer and observed. The exhibition merges historical memory with contemporary urgency, creating a meta-space that questions human fragility and perpetual movement.
Key facts
- Michal Rovner's exhibition 'ALERT' is at Fondazione Merz in Turin.
- The installation is site-specific and transforms the architecture.
- A giant jackal projection is a central element, referencing Anubis.
- Rovner removes identifying details from reality in her work.
- UNHCR reports over 100 million refugees, a context for the work.
- The jackal is both observer and observed, evoking ancient myths.
- The exhibition merges historical memory with contemporary issues.
- Rovner describes the work as a sort of Arte Povera and moving fresco.
Entities
Artists
- Michal Rovner
Institutions
- Fondazione Merz
- Pace Gallery
- UNHCR
- Artribune
Locations
- Turin
- Italy
- Israel
- New York