Plot

2023

Feat. BB (Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava) & Lydia Ourahmane, and Moriah Evans

 

Raza’s exhibition stems from his site-specific installation Absorption and his evolving video work Ge. Absorption will fill the second floor of Museion with more than 60 tons of artificial “neosoil” in collaboration with soil scientists and a “soil coordinator” sourcing local materials and waste products, including clay, grape marc, marble dust, coffee grounds, pizza oven ash, human hair, and more. In Plot the artist offers the entire mise-en-scène to other practitioners to develop their own temporal chapters. Thus, the piece will undergo successive metamorphoses, starting from the first day of the exhibition. The former library of Museion will become a storehouse of soil ingredients and a workshop setting where neosoil is transformed into mud bricks, laying the groundwork for the second chapter of the plot. In Chapter III, this hybrid environment will become the setting for Moriah Evans’ Italian debut, in collaboration with Bolzano Danza. In Chapter IV, Plot’s narrative returns to Absorption. The mud bricks will be decomposed back into the neosoil and the cultivators will return, working to rebalance the soil’s chemistry, making sure it becomes fertile once more.