According to the situationist theory of psychogeography (1958), it is essential to understand the urban environment as an active device capable of influencing the thoughts and behaviour of the individual. The exhibition takes shape at the Cascina Sant’Ambrogio on the outskirts of Milan, which became famous as one of the first women monasteries where nuns fled when Barbarossa destroyed the city in 1162 AD.
Today, the property has been transformed into a cultural AgroHub, Cascinet, which implements participatory urban regeneration projects, putting citizens and the local community at the centre. The exhibition’s research investigates narratives that are unknown but essential to begin imagining viable futures on a planet that is now irreparably damaged. The artists in the exhibition tell their stories with immersive installations designed to be observed and walked through. Modular structures look to plants’ organic and inclusive architecture. The works are not limited to the will of the artist who arranges them because they are continually modified when encountering other living species, such as mould, animals or plants. Each element has been salvaged from abandoned or discarded objects, then reassembled and enhanced by the artist to demonstrate the importance of ruin as a manifestation of the new and not just destruction of the old.
Still Possible Thoughts becomes a space of active construction, free of limits and boundaries, where different construction methods are explored to transform our way of living and inhabiting the world.
ARTISTS: Camilla Alberti / PSICO.LOBO / Federico de Lorentis / Tsamani Tovar / VerySeri