Liliana Moro

LILIANA MORO

project realized RAVE 2021: IN ONDA,  sound installation, neon

In the year of the 10th anniversary, RAVE invited the artist Liliana Moro to interpret its spirit.

Moro worked on what is not perceptible to the human senses and, as such, often removed from our daily awareness. Specifically, he turned his gaze towards the bottom of the sea, that most hidden and distant part from the surface: on the one hand the desire to listen to the abyss, on the other the life that reveals itself in the multiplicity of its forms, even the most small and delicate. If the only possibility of salvation requires starting to rethink ourselves as a species, the real revolution can consist in stopping, and immersing ourselves in the place of the liminal, inside and outside ourselves. Thus, on the thin threshold that separates us from the monstrously other, facing a different light, we could finally close our eyes and stay, for once, listening. The project In onda was created in collaboration with Tommaso Previdi and Beatrice Volpi (sound editing Matteo Sandri), and with the Miramare Marine Protected Area WWF Miramare Biosphere Reserve. The literal translation of the title is in the wave, but in Italian In onda also means on air.

The interdisciplinary round table Il sabato del villaggio followed the presentation of the project on Saturday 28 August 2021, starting with reflections, suggestions and questions raised by Moro’s work.

In addition to the artist, the participants in the dialogue included:

Anna Bálványos, curator Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Cecilia Casorati, critic and curator, director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Daniele Capra, independent curator and critic, Giuliana Carbi, art historian and director of Trieste Contemporanea, Fabio Cherstich, director, Andrea Colla, zoologist Museum of Natural History of Trieste, Eva Comuzzi, independent curator and critic, Giovanna Felluga, AtemporaryStudio, curator and artistic director Vigne Museum, Lara Gaeta, curator and artistic director aA29 Project Room, Giovanni Leghissa, philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Turin, Tiziana Pers, artist and co-founder of RAVE, Claudio Libero Pisano, curator and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Donatella Saroli , curator MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Gabi Scardi, independent critic and curator.