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26/12/2014

Adelita Husni-Bey

Laveronica arte contemporanea, Modica (RG)

Laveronica Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present Adelita Husni-Bey’s second solo show at the gallery, featuring photographs, a film, and corollary works on paper. The film will be projected at the 19th-century Aurora theatre in Modica shortly before the opening of the exhibition.

Since 2011 Adelita Husni-Bey has been researching, unearthing and utilising anarco-collectivist pedagogical methodologies in her practice. The solo presentation at Galleria Laveronica continues this trajectory with Agency—giochi di potere (Agency—games of power), a video and photographic installation displaying the results of a collective exercise examining power relations in a model society.

Inspired by a citizenship class exercise originally developed in the United Kingdom, 35 volunteer students from Rome’s Manara High School were asked to think through relationships of dominance in contemporary Italy. The students were divided into five categories: journalists, politicians, workers, activists and bankers. The journalists were responsible for an hourly report on the advancement of the "society," while the different categories responded to the scenarios by assigning each other "power-points." The simulation was interrupted by planned moments of abstraction from the game, debates about the social conditions being created through the choices the different categories were making and the meaning and workings of power. Agency—giochi di potere was conducted in April 2014 at MAXXI Museum in Rome and is accompanied by photographs shot during the simulation where students self-represented their categories in groups.

As part of the project, in the month preceding the workshop, various meetings were organized between the students and selected journalists, activists, economists, union leaders and publishers, in order to deepen the students’ perceptions of their chosen categories.

Agency—giochi di potere, has been made possible thanks to the generous contributions of:
AGI Verona Collection
NCTM e l'arte
Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI)

Adelita Husni-Bey (b. 1985, Italy) is an artist and a researcher whose practice involves the analysis and counter-representation of hegemonic ideologies in contemporary Western societies. Recent projects have also focused on re-thinking radical pedagogical models within the framework of anarco-collectivist studies. Solo shows include: White Paper: The Land, Beirut (in Cairo), 2014; Playing Truant, Gasworks, 2012; The Green Mountain, ViaFarini/DOCVA, 2010. She has participated in Really Useful Knowledge, Reina Sofia museum, 2014; Utopia for Sale?, MAXXI museum, 2014; Jens, Hordeland Kunstsenter, 2013; Meeting Points 7, MuKHa, 2013; 0 Degree Performance, Moscow Biennial 2013; Mental Furniture Industry, Flattime House, 2013; TRACK, S.M.A.K museum, 2012; Right to Refusal, Bregenz Kunstverein, 2012. She has recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and will be presenting chapter II of White Paper at Casco (Office for Design Art and Theory) in the spring of 2015.

Immagine: Adelita Husni-Bey, Politici (Politicians), from Agency – giochi di potere, 2014–2015. C-print, 110 x 146 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Laveronica arte contemporanea.

Inaugurazione 27 dicembre alle 18

Laveronica arte contemporanea
via Grimaldi, 93 - Modica (RG) Sicilia Italia
Orario: mar-sab 15-20
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