Questo spazio è condiviso - Vol 1 - Cavallerizza

Text: Giuditta Mottura, Arianna Sollazzo

A poster is a sheet of paper displayed in a public place for the purpose of communicating something, usually for advertising. What if instead it became a political act designed to bring people to interact with the urban environment?

Intervening on reality by creating photographic posters, identifying the crucial and unused points of urban life by creating new spaces for free expression and interaction, and providing an element of architectural enhancement thanks to the participation of those who live in those places on a daily basis and from whom the urban planning it should restart.

The starting point is the slogan posted in the place of residence: La Cavallerizza belongs to everyone.

Citizens are asked to identify and define places through phrases relating to gentrification and therefore significant for the artist, resulting in a partial subjective description.

The work becomes a residual but indispensable expressive space, relating to a land affected by the settlement of a designed and defined architecture. It has a deliberately anarchic character, devoid of form, it has a pre-established identity which changes according to the will of its visitors, and finally manifests itself in the exhibition as a paradox: in an internal space, in the place where everything was born, in the Horsewoman in which interaction is deliberately denied.