The Butterfly Affect: Collective Ecology at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

The group exhibition 'The Butterfly Affect', curated by Irene Calderoni and Bernardo Follini at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, explores collective dynamics of care, pleasure, and ecology through the lens of individual agency. The show reconfigures the foundation's architecture to create a fluid, immersive path. It opens with Jumana Manna's video 'Forages' (2020), blending archival documentary and fiction to critique colonial power. Isaac Julien presents super-8 footage of Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage garden in Dungeness, Kent, highlighting queer activism and botanical passion. Sharona Franklin's multidisciplinary works, including reliquaries filled with pills and syringes, investigate illness and disability. Patricia Dominguez's installation 'Plant Saga' combines mural painting, watercolor, medicinal plants, and mannequin hands to envision sustainable futures. Sebastiano Impellizzeri, the sole Italian artist, shows large-scale works mapping cruising areas, exploring personal and symbolic geography. Zoe Williams presents anthropomorphic ceramic masks and vases with erotic, anti-capitalist overtones. The exhibition frames these practices as interconnected ecosystems, echoing James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis's 1970 Gaia hypothesis, which posits Earth as a self-regulating system.