Moltitudini

Artissima 2026 will present Moltitudini, an original project of cross-disciplinary exchange in which Laura Accerboni – an outstanding figure in contemporary Italian poetry – enters into dialogue with visual art through a process of research, interpretation and hybridisation of languages. As poet in residence, Laura Accerboni will open her practice to a dimension of perception and listening in relation to contemporary art, establishing resonant connections with artists working in Torino.

Through a series of encounters, the residency becomes a cross-disciplinary meeting point for artists who have chosen Torino as a place to live and work, reflecting the city’s renewed artistic vitality and international appeal. In this context, the artists Guglielmo Castelli, Sara Enrico, Giorgio Griffa, Tom Johnson, Marzia Migliora and Laura Pugno will enter into dialogue with Laura Accerboni in a free and spontaneous way, within the thematic framework of the next edition of the fair, in which Fancy will once again allow Artissima the freedom to embrace interdisciplinary acrobatics.

THE ENCOUNTERS

Laura Pugno

Philtrum: The groove on the upper lip. The American poet Taije Silverman says it was an angel who created it on our bodies, when about to exit the womb - they leave an imprint with a finger that suppresses knowledge and breaks the relation with each element.
Before we are born we know everything: "the sound of mollusks/ (...) how the color blue was made (...) each dream of death and its fish shape, its lopped/ (...) the shy longings of salamanders (...) the symphonies that turtles heard."
Then nothing more. There is no regret - we can be sorry and not sorry - there is no "Wait", uttered "in that language an angel understands."
I often asked myself why Laura Pugno's work makes me think of this story. It is as if I was in front of a face while the finger nears but does not accomplish the gesture entirely.

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Giorgio Griffa

Unlost. "That which remains when all is forgotten (...) that which survives when the rest is lost".
Griffa's work and words create a reflection of immersion when in contact with this term, and there is no longer the fear of going down and not being able to come up. Suddenly the whole body recognises the signs and remembers what it could do, the movement of what "shall not be reft (from them)".

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Marzia Migliora

I experienced Migliora's work as an underwater phone you inevitably grip if you come across it. There is no other way. The reason we are there is not important, somehow we ended up in the deep. When we grab it we have no idea whom we could call, but it lasts only an instant. A multitude of voices talk to us and our tongue fits perfectly into it. The underwater phone is home to the voices. Beings of all kinds and shapes.

Marzia Migliora succeeds in having the power and potential of that "them" surfaced, to whom - as soon as the word is pronounced - space, dignity, and reason are negated.

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Sara Enrico

Vorrei avere un corpo così.
Un buio e una luce che illuminano cancellando l’ordine dello sguardo.
Un corpo solo simile a un corpo.
Dove non serve pronunciare i nomi delle singole parti né cercare un peso per spiegarle. Sdraiata a terra, intera e a pezzi, farei la superficie appena spostandomi.
Sarebbe un amore così grande.

Alla fine del nostro incontro, io e Sara Enrico siamo uscite nel terrazzino del suo studio che dà sulla diga. E una diga era proprio ciò che avevo sognato la notte prima: acqua da un lato, meno acqua dall’altro e cemento in mezzo.

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