Column Press. Ludovica Carbotta

Column Press, the second exhibition by Ludovica Carbotta at the gallery, explores the city as a fragile, cumulative organism in a constant state of wear. Through transformed urban objects as collapsed columns, eroded materials, and useless structures, the artist proposes a landscape that rejects productivity and calls into question the idea of progress and stability. The city emerges here as a space of resistance, play, and failure, where every minimal gesture leaves a trace and where precarity becomes a form of material protest.

Carbotta’s practice focuses on the physical exploration of the urban space and on how individuals establish connections with the environment they inhabit. Hovering on the boundaries between reality and ficition, recent works combine installations, texts and performances reflecting around the notion of site, identity and participation. Specifically she explores what she calls fictional site specificity, a form of site-oriented practice that considers imaginary places or embodies real places with fictional contexts, recovering the role of imagination as a value to construct knowledge.