Correspondences 2.2 is the first project curated by Harpa Project (Michela Gulia and Gabriella Arrigoni) and involves 14 couples of artists, invited to answer a provocative question -“Who is, between the two of you, the dominant figure in your artistic work?”- through an epistolary exchange, writing a dialogue sprung out from this question itself. To communicate with the partner, therefore, matches the double meaning of “correspond” as exchanging letters, and as a way to be similar or fit together. The initial question engages with this provocative linguistic game in order to develop a reflection upon themes like power, hierarchy, gender, the mechanisms of the creative process, and especially about the idea of authorship in our contemporary age, within a dimension that is different from a collective, and also different from the relational model of public art, but rather a dialectic dimension based on the minimal plural unit, that of 2. A sort of “connective intelligence”( Derrick de Kerckhove), appealing to the manifold but taking its starting point from the dialectic dimension of the couple, and reminding us that in every time, but especially nowadays, knowledge and creativity often come from an expanded identity, rather than a singular one.

The exhibition, hosted by 26cc, presents a work (mainly videos and installations) by each of the involved couples.


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