Mind the Gap 2025
Casa Cavazzini - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
via Cavour 14, Udine
14 December 2024 – 16 March 2025
Tuesdays - Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Exhibition curated by Lorenzo Lazzari
Casa Cavazzini, the museum of modern and contemporary art in Udine, is hosting the eighth edition of the exhibition Mind The Gap, which is titled Come costruisci le immagini dell'altro? (How to construct images of the other?)
Mind the Gap is a project dedicated to contemporary visual arts, with a focus on moving images. Inspired by the figure of Franco Basaglia, it pursues an idea of culture as a means of activating and involving people, places and communities in relation to contemporary issues through an interdisciplinary approach.
The works on display are placed in relation to each other to highlight some of the ways in which Western culture has constructed the image of otherness in recent history and beyond to legitimise colonial domination, including through art history, mental health, technological advancement, cinema and new media.
The title of the exhibition is based on a conceptual operation by Alfredo Jaar. In 2013, the Chilean artist gave new meaning to the quote by US photographer Ansel Adam “You do not take a photograph. You make it” by printing it in large-format multiples for the public to take away. This action completed Jaar's work by emphasising the difference between taking and making. Indeed, each image is not a simple slice of the world, but a particular conception of it, and everything we often take for granted is instead constructed.
Based on this consideration, five film and video works by Invernomuto (Italy), Gelare Khoshgozaran (Iran), Little Warsaw (Hungary), Stefan Kruse (Denmark) and Eleonora Roaro (Italy) will be exhibited at Casa Cavazzini together with a screening by Caterina Erica Shanta (Italy) at Cinema Visionario. The aim is to raise questions about the way in which we construct the images with which we overwrite desires, instances, cultures and bodies.
The eighth edition of Mind The Gap is characterised by significant growth and the institutionalisation of the project, which is widespread throughout the region and the urban peripheries, and is complemented by a dense programme of participatory art workshops for schools, training courses and popular and interdisciplinary encounters involving not only the artists in the exhibition, but also a series of speakers from universities and cultural institutions, in order to combine the artistic perspective with historical, sociological, scientific and philosophical knowledge.
Mind The Gap is a project by Altreforme in collaboration with the Musei Civici di Udine, realised with the support of Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Fondazione Friuli, Fondazione Pietro Pittini, Boato International, Legacoop.
For more information about the exhibited artists and works as well as the public programme, please visit the website www.projectmindthegap.it